[musingsole]

That hardline hand-off from design to developer is only desired by arrogance (arrogant designers or arrogant developers). It should be obvious on the face of it that good design is about compromises between perhaps pure goals and what's attainable with the tech you have AND what's attainable with the product team you have.

Ditto for hardline requirements from project management. It's either a CYOA strategy or a holier-than-thou mentality.

[mrdonbrown]

Well said. Funny we realized long ago that you can't just have a backend team build an API then throw that the wall to a frontend team to use it, yet somehow, we often try to do that with design. To achieve what you describe takes more than a conversation, but a healthy and active relationship.