After the final design gets approved, the design team needs to hand it off to the development team. It should include
- Meetings where a designer walks through the design prototype with the developer, and explain what documents are provided and how to use them
- Documents that support development, such as user stories/use cases, design specifications document, and functional specifications document
Because the developers need to understand the design thoroughly in order to build it accurately. The hi-fi mockups we produce are static images, and prototypes on InVision are semi-interactive and do not cover all the details in the design. Therefore, the design team needs this step to make sure the developers are on the same page.
At the end of the design engagement, after the final design is approved by client.
- Schedule a meeting with the developer(s)
- Walk through the final design (InVision prototype or Hi-fi mockups) - this walkthrough should focus on the function specs
- Explain the structure of the app
- Pages > Components > Objects
- How to navigate through
- Walk through each object - doesn't need to elaborate for standard QlikView or Qlik Sense objects
- The purpose of the object
- Different states of the object
- Interactions
- Data elements
- Business rules
- Briefly walk through any supporting documents
- Send final design and documents to the development team
- Answer questions when needed