It’s a scenario we’ve all lived through: your deadline is fast approaching. UI bugs are cropping up left, right and center. Spacing is so inconsistent it looks jarring, and your client is stressed that every image they upload in Drupal comes out with people’s faces cropped in half. Can you resist the temptation to add another hack, another field, another confusing instruction? What if instead we took a peek at the design logic behind these elements and found something better?

Join me as we resurrect the lost art of design interrogation: a front-end skill for finding lasting solutions that are more robust, more intuitive and simpler to maintain by developing through the eyes of a designer.

In this presentation we’ll look at common technical issues in front-end development, and consider why band-aid solutions come up short. We'll then go on a treasure hunt for design logic that allows us to create confident systems that govern spacing, images, and all the rest. Finally, we'll hone our new skill of design interrogation to root out where design logic is missing, and use it as an opportunity to create our own.