Tom Greever is the author of “Articulating Design Decisions” and a user experience design consultant. You can hire him to design your app, train your team, or speak at your next event. He lives in Illinois with his wife and five kids. He is probably cleaning up the house right now.
In order to really know whether your work is any good, you need a higher level of principles that can be used as a measuring stick for implementing design. You need something that is removed from a specific language like CSS or an opinionated way of writing it. To bridge this gap, Tom Greever’s compiled nine principles of design implementation. This is a set of broad guidelines meant to preserve an underlying value. It can be used as a guide for someone working on implementation or as a tool to evaluate an existing project. To make it easier to follow along and see how each principle applies to a project, Tom will use a design mockup from one of his projects as the basis for this article.
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