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Chapter 12. Jo Learns the Real Process

Idea → spec → design system → mockups → code

Act IV · Ship It · with Meera Aunty

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What you'll learn in this chapter

  • Find and validate an idea by talking to real people, before building
  • Write a detailed spec that Claude can build from without guessing
  • Derive a design system from products your users already love
  • Mock up every screen in every state, and test it with real users
  • Turn those files into code, one screen at a time

Inside

  1. 12.1 Think of the idea, and validate it
  2. 12.2 Write a detailed spec
  3. 12.3 Create a design system from market research
  4. 12.4 Build design mockups
  5. 12.5 Code them into reality
  6. 12.6 Ship, measure, loop back
  7. Lab: the real process for QueueLess
  8. What you've learned
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