Several years ago — and probably still in some teams — it would be common for a designer to draw a website in Photoshop and then throw it over the wall to a front end developer who would convert it — or ‘slice’ it — into HTML and CSS. It’s the typical workflow in teams that follow a waterfall process. These days, the line between design and development in agile teams like ours has blurred, with more designers embracing code and designing in the browser.

While the Photoshop slicing workflow might be a thing of the past, that doesn’t mean…

Before joining Holiday Extras as a Software Tester three years ago, I had spent the previous nine years in a split UX/QA role at a digital agency — both designing websites and apps, and then testing them once they’d been built. In the last few months, I’ve started to dedicate part of my time to design once again.

In my agency role, I was used to switching from one project to the next, and from designing to testing. Because of client deadlines, I would often work on one project for a couple of hours, then switch to another project for…