Mobile System Design

Mobile System Design

Reducing the Friction Between Designers and Developers

Practical tips for improving designer–developer collaboration

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Tjeerd in 't Veen
Jun 17, 2025
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You’ll often hear developers say something like:

“Ugh, the designer changed the colors again.”

But, developers change things all the time too. We refactor code, rename classes, pull in third-party libraries. Yet when a designer tweaks a few colors, it somehow feels more disruptive.

Why is that?

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