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08 December 2008 | Matt Perdeaux | Design

24ways is back again this year, and already has some varied and useful tips and tricks for developer/designers.

I particulary like Drew McLellan's list of things to help smooth the hand-over between design and development:

• Is the layout fixed, or fluid?


• Does each element cope with expanding for larger text and more content?


• Are all the graphics large enough to cope with an area expanding?


• Does each interactive element have a state for with and without JavaScript?


• Does each element have a state for logged in and logged out users?


• How are any custom fonts being displayed? (and does the developer have the font to use?)


• Does each interactive element have error and success messages designed?


• Do all form fields have a label and each form a submit button?


• Is your Photoshop comp document well organised?


• Have you provided flat PDFs of each state?


• Have you provided a colour reference?


• Are we having fun yet?

All good things to think about.