Lesson Learned: Design Approach

Design from the front and build from the back

If we start with an idea for a web application, we’re immediately confronted with a thousand questions about data requirements, API design, and the user experience. Knowing what to tackle first can be maddening. We make one decision and break an earlier decision, or it rules out simple solutions to another piece of the application. As described in Design a Web Application, we advocate to always design from the front and build from the back. This will not eliminate all of the challenges, but it has several benefits.