Development workflow Practical
Turning taste arguments into rule checks
"It feels a bit cramped" can be neither argued with nor fixed. Spacing off the scale, colour off the palette, contrast below threshold, missing states — four rules…
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Development workflow Practical
Do not swap everything at once
A full swap makes every problem appear at the same moment — which means none of them can be attributed. So you switch one template at a time.
Development workflow Practical
Design with real content, not filler
Filler text of uniform length hides every layout problem you have. Real sentences vary wildly, and that variance is exactly where a layout falls apart.
Development workflow Practical
Review on staging, not in screenshots
A screenshot is one moment under ideal conditions. States, edge cases and real content only surface on staging — and staging has conditions of its own.
Development workflow Practical
Undrawn states are where the build diverges from the design
A composition that shows only the happy path defines half the screen. The other half — empty, error, overlong title — gets improvised during the build, and the…
Development workflow Intro
Getting design and code to use one set of names
Different names mean a translation step in every conversation. That translation lives only in people's heads, and it never reaches whoever joins next.
Development workflow Intro
Hand over rules, not just screens
Hand over twenty screens and the developer asks about the twenty-first. What lets them build the screens you never drew is a set of rules — and rules…
Development workflow Intro
A redesign starts with an inventory, not a mockup
You cannot protect a page that is not on your list. Three inventories — pages, templates, top entry screens — settle both the scope and the schedule.
Development workflow Advanced
A routine: what tools catch and what a person must
Automated checkers handle the mechanically decidable part quickly and reliably. The rest — whether the alt text is right, whether the order makes sense — only a person…
Development workflow Advanced
Finding the files nothing in your site uses
The hard part is not deleting but proving nothing uses a file. Once you know where references hide, a safe order appears.
Development workflow Advanced
Documentation that lives with the code
A design document kept elsewhere diverges from the code within two months. What keeps documentation alive is location, not length — and what belongs in it is the…
Development workflow Practical
What to check before a theme update
Postponing an update is not a plan. Once you know what can break, updating stops being frightening and becomes a procedure with an order.
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