It takes a team to create robust UIs. You might ask a designer: “does this look right?” or a QA person: “can you break this?” Walking over to your teammate’s desk is still the simplest way to review UI.

But constant face-to-face collaboration is unrealistic. Most teams end up collaborating online via tools like Slack, GitHub, or Asana. In reality, online collaboration is messy so teams wind up with a mountain of disorganized feedback.

If you build apps for a living like me, you’ve probably also noticed that communication bogs down as the team grows. More collaborators mean more opinions to track. And trends toward frequent releases and feature-full UIs make it harder than ever to stay ahead of UI feedback.

Miscommunication causes wasted work

Miscommunication in UI development results in frustrating last minute changes which slow developers down and cause annoying back-and-forth.

There are plenty of ways to communicate but none are made for UI development. Folks pollute Jira or Asana with minutiae. Abuse Slack channels. Paste screenshots and GIFs into pull requests. Or worse, reference the wrong outdated artifacts.

Wires get crossed because communication tools for UI devs don’t exist… yet

Even though everyone recognizes that regular feedback is crucial for the modern UI development workflow it still takes too much effort to manage. Collaboration should be a seamless part of UI development that equips you with precise feedback when you need it.

Collaborate on UI development with your team

Imagine if collaborating online was as natural as working together in person. What if you could share and get feedback on UI components as soon as you push code?

💎 Consider this workflow:

Build UI components as usual Push code to Github Index UI components online automatically for a shared source of truth Get feedback by clicking on a PR badge or sharing a link

If UI components were instantly synced online every commit, your teammates could review UI without touching code, /node_modules , or the command line.

Conversations live alongside components. And action items anchor to the precise commit. Finally, you could follow UI decision-making in one convenient place.

This means teams troubleshoot during UI development long before QA or production. You’d save time and be more efficient.