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The pros and cons of Big Design Up Front — and what I do instead

10 min readApr 17, 2019

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Waterfall

Zooming in or out

Iteration

Integration

Cost, cheap, expensive

Engineering, development, coding

What is BDUF?

BDUF assumptions

BDUF strengths

BDUF weaknesses

Agile & Emergent Design

Emergent Design

Emergent design assumptions

Emergent design strengths

Emergent design weaknesses

Just Enough Design Up Front

“Big design up front is dumb, but doing no design up front is even dumber.”

– Dave Thomas

JEDUF to the rescue

Beyond JEDUF

There’s still plenty of room for BDUF

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Benek Lisefski
Benek Lisefski

Written by Benek Lisefski

I’m a UX/UI designer from Auckland, New Zealand. Writing about freelancing & business for indie designers & creatives at https://solowork.co

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