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# Bridging the gap between design and development


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 16:20–16:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 11 (700)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/992-bridging-the-gap-between-design-and-development)

## Description

The partnership between designers and developers stands out  as one of the most crucial relationships in business today. It’s where ideas meet execution.

All teams want to bring quality designs to production, faster. But this is challenging because it requires close alignment between design and development — two disciplines that operate with different tools, languages, and objectives. Poor collaboration leads to increased toil for both sides and results in slower innovation and ship times. 

Bridging the gap between these design and development teams is the key to unlocking more team happiness and better product outcomes.

In this session, experts from Figma and Atlassian (Jira) will share 5 core best practices and practical tips to improve designer-developer collaboration for faster ship times, improved teamwork and better overall results.

## Speakers

### [Jade Jiang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jade-jiang)

Product Designer at Atlassian
### [Noga Mann](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@noga-mann)

Figma, Engineering Manager


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- [3 Key Steps for Optimizing DevOps Workflows](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/123-3-key-steps-for) — Dan Tao
- [Roadmapping and Collaboration Best Practices to know you're building the right thing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/415-roadmapping-and) — Shilpa Airi
- [Specifications as the better way of software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/197-specifications-as) — Artem Manchenkov
- [A Journey from Internal Tools to Public SDK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/412-a-journey-from) — Lucille Tachet