Front end design to be handed over to a developer.

[FarligOpptreden]

I prefer the front to back way. It's cleaner.

You end up building API's dedicated to UI features and use cases, which makes your code less reusable. Try reusing the code when building mobile apps on top of it as well... You'll end up either refactoring the WHOLE application and wasting a lot of time, or you'll end up copy-pasting a lot of work and creating a maintenance nightmare.

 

[rward]

I prefer the front to back way. It's cleaner.

Having it all planned out before hand is the best.

 

[Cam]

Nothing beats sitting next to a UX person while developing. Each role knows what is possible within the time and budget. The difference in perspectives is also very helpful.

Frontend development is pretty cool when you receive a proper spec/design with assets from an experienced UX designer. More props if the designer has a fallback design on older IE versions if needed.

 

[esvi]

It depends what type of team you are working with and what kind of work the other devs need to do on the site.

Each team works differently, and you should probably be asking them what they need from you.

 

[sutekj]

I'm a back end developer. What I do with my front end dev / UX person, is we discuss what pages are needed, and I setup the routes for the app. So the skeleton of the app exists. Then we sit together and discuss what needs to go on each page. She then creates the views with dummy data. We iterate through that until we're both happy with what it looks like. When that's done I just go and connect her designs to database essentially. Easy peasy.

We use PHP frameworks. Mostly Laravel.