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UX/Developer Collaboration

Are you a developer looking into UX, but turned off by its squishy concepts? Or a UX designer wanting to speak the technical team's language? You'll love OOUX.

For designers, understanding databases and data structure is critical. A lack of understanding how data is formatted, where it's coming from, and how it works is the source of countless late-in-the-game headaches. For developers, getting brought in early is key. With OOUX, developers don't need to wait on screen design to get started on back-end architecture. Using Object Mapping, designers and developers can work together to create a data model that more closely aligns to the user's mental model...which is a beautiful thing.

Check out the podcast episodes, articles, videos below to see how the OOUX community is leveraging the power of an objects-first approach to make collaboration more effective — and more fun.

Featured Resources

Resources you'll enjoy

Lightning Talk: How OOUX Connects Backend Developers with Designers
Lightning Talk: How OOUX Connects Backend Developers with Designers
Sondra Eby

Ever wanted to talk with UX designers about database concerns, but didn't know how? Enter Object Oriented UX: A design methodology that gets designers and database developers speaking the same language and working together to create digital projects from day one.

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Episode 030 - Why designers should “dev” with Caroline Sober-James
Episode 030 - Why designers should “dev” with Caroline Sober-James
Caroline Sober-James

In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Caroline discuss why designers should cultivate empathy toward developers, how to be "a designer devs swoon over," and how quickly Caroline's conversations with developers turn into "OOUX lovefests."

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Episode 027 - OOUXing Whiskey with Steve Smith
Episode 027 - OOUXing Whiskey with Steve Smith
Steve Smith

Steve is a software engineer, a UXer, and a serial entrepreneur. His early company, Ordered List, was acquired by GitHub and after a long stint as a product designer at GitHub, we met when we were both consulting to NineLabs. He is the founder and lead designer at Box Out Designs, which is basically Canva for the sports industry.

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Episode 025 - Bridging Development and Design with Miriam Suzanne and Sondra Eby Eisenstat
Episode 025 - Bridging Development and Design with Miriam Suzanne and Sondra Eby Eisenstat
Miriam Suzanne, Sondra Eby

In this episode of the podcast, Sophia, Sondra, and Miriam discuss the adaptability of the ORCA process for teams, the coming innovations of container queries in CSS, and how OOUX facilitates a fruitful, continuous conversation between designers and developers.

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Leveraging the Power of Junction Objects
Leveraging the Power of Junction Objects
Sophia V. Prater

Now that I am aware of junction objects, I use them ALL. THE. TIME. In this article, you'll learn about an OOUX-power tool that helps you solve some super-sticky data puzzles.  This "design-technical" tool improves communication and collaboration with developers, while allowing us (UX designers) to create more dynamic experiences for our users.

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OOUX Happy Hour: When OOUX Meets API Design: Love at First "Site"
OOUX Happy Hour: When OOUX Meets API Design: Love at First "Site"
Caroline Sober-James

Understanding APIs is becoming more and more important for UX designers. Fortunately, OOUX can help with that. Join us and our guest of honor, Caroline Sober-James to learn how you can tap into the business complexity-wrangling power of object-oriented user experience (OOUX) to plan, design, build, and deliver better APIs.

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Episode 017 - Using OOUX in the wild with Caroline Sober-James
Episode 017 - Using OOUX in the wild with Caroline Sober-James
Caroline Sober-James

In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Caroline discuss why Caroline calls OOUX a power tool for digital design, what it's like to have a user call your system "seamless," and the parallels between OOUX and API design.

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Using object-oriented user experience for software development
Using object-oriented user experience for software development
Eduard Khristus

This is a great article about how OOUX can be used from a software development perspective. Eduard also has some interesting techniques for documenting Attribute Requirements.

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