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We’re working on a side project, the details of which can wait for another post, and the very nature of it has prompted us to devise new methods for team collaboration.

Without giving too much away (I’m a bit over-excited and secretive about it) the service we’re designing consists of two parts: a website and an iPhone app strung together with an API. There are dependencies between each part of the service. Things that happen on the iPhone app need to be reflected on the site and vice versa. There are other nuances but at that’s the core of it, a simultaneous broadcast / receive from app to site and back.

Working out where to begin wireframing the service proved tricky. With so many interdependencies it all became a bit chicken and egg.

I could work on two things at once. I could go as far as possible with the mobile bit, then switch. And then back again. But it just didn’t feel comfortable. I thought I’d end up re-doing things over and over.

Why not, though, recruit another team member and work simultaneously?

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