The most successful teams share a common characteristic: mutual understanding.

Teams that communicate openly and frequently build better products.

Teams with a continuous exchange of feedback and regular meetings will build better products.

Form a clear path of communication with your developers at the outset of a design process.

A design can improve with the input of a developer, and code can be better written with the help of a designer.

Conversion-optimized design results in happier users and more profitable businesses.

With modular documentation, project stakeholders can access any piece of documentation at any moment—without derailing you from your work.

When you work together from the beginning, you’ll create a better product.

Smart teams know there’s value in documenting the brand’s rules.

A bad presentation can create a vacuum for clients to provide overly prescriptive feedback, which in turn leads to subpar final work.

Hint: They’re a quick and organized way to show everything your design has to offer.

Great designers dive deep to uncover what a client actually needs.

If you can’t empathize and communicate your vision to developers and QA engineers, the pixels won’t come to life like you wanted.

Design needs content, and content needs design. But communication between content and design isn’t always so smooth.

GV Design Partner John Zeratsky shares his proven, reliable, and simple techniques that teams can use to work better together.