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Apr 28 2020

Inside a dev's mind - How do you plan a UI feature?

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Inside a dev's mind - How do you plan a UI feature?
When developing a new feature many of us developers tend to jump into it via programming instead of planning the architecture out first. It may seem easier to start programming. But this often ruins us. We take the wrong approach and don't realize it until we've wasted too much time.
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