Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
by bob1029 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:58PM
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This is the best option. Creating low-fidelity UIs that prove the business functionality are faster to develop/iterate and provide an immediate signal to even the least technical individuals that the feature is still incomplete.
Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
by WorldMaker on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:49PM
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"Sketch" themes or "xkcd" themes (named after the pencil look of the comic) can be quite handy for this.
For instance, Bootsketch: http://yago.github.io/Bootsketch/
I wish some of the bigger CSS frameworks would adopt sketch theming support as a "progressive" option, rather than the entire page all or nothing being Bootstrap or Bootsketch have the ability to add a "sketch" class to any element on any page. (Or maybe better yet, forcing sketch styles by default and needing something like a "final" or "final final" class everywhere, like the documents folder of someone that has never understood source control.)
Management tip: Make the UI reflect the actual state of the project.
The UI should be UGGGLY and should get prettier as the backend work gets finished. If if the artists prettify it; make the animations and interactions janky and sluggish.
Never make the UI better than the actual implementation.
Bonus tip: Always have something slightly off in the UI that management can point out to fix. Useful managers will simply quickly point it out and move on to more important problems; useless managers will focus on it.