UX Designer vs Front-End Developer: Roles, Skills and Careers
Compare UX designers and front-end developers by responsibilities, skills, tools, deliverables, career paths and how the two roles collaborate.
Front End Development Services
ANODA turns approved designs into responsive components, connected data and complete interaction states, so your team ships the intended experience without guessing or rebuilding each screen.
- For agreed designs
- And engineers who review the work
- 8–16 weeks
- For an agreed scope
- Reusable components
- With the states real users meet
- Tested against the design
- And handed over to your engineers
In short
Your agreed design, built as a working frontend.
What's included
- The implemented interface
- Integration with your APIs
- Verification evidence
- An engineering handoff
Helps you decide
- Whether the design ships as specified
- What your team owns once it does
Where it stops
Builds the whole application and its logic.
Frontend Development
Implements an agreed interface on your existing services.
Not included
- New backend, databases or infrastructure
- Owning the production release, unless agreed
A frontend your engineering team can take forward.
Delivery is defined against the selected workflows and acceptance criteria. Backend changes, infrastructure and production release responsibilities are agreed explicitly rather than assumed to be included.
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Implemented interface scope
The agreed screens, components and interaction states.
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Integration behaviour
Documented handling for the agreed API responses and failures.
- No bulk approve or reject
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Verification evidence
Results from the scoped functional, responsive and design checks.
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Engineering handoff
A reviewable change set and the documentation to release it.
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Your engineering team receives the agreed code and documentation.
Discuss your productThe boundary is agreed before the build begins.
Who builds what, whether the inputs are ready, in what order it ships and what it is accepted against.
ANODA builds
- Interface components and layouts
- Interaction and state handling
- Integration with the agreed APIs
- Responsive and accessible behaviour
Your team owns
- Backend services and data
- Hosting, deployment and monitoring
- Production release decisions
- Maintenance after handoff
Input readiness
- Design
- Approved screens and states for the scope.
- APIs
- Documented endpoints, or a contract to build against.
- Repository
- Access, conventions and the existing components.
- Environment
- A place to run and review the work.
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Review design and code
Check the design against the codebase and flag what is missing.
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Build components and layout
Reuse what exists, add what the scope needs.
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Connect the data
Integrate with the APIs, including loading, empty and failure states.
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Verify and hand over
Test against the agreed criteria, then walk your engineers through it.
Accepted against
- The approved design
- Agreed viewports
- Accessibility criteria
- API behaviour, including failures
- Your review before handoff
Frontend implementation inside a working booking service
easyStorage’s inherited booking app: code refactoring, React and Next.js frontend, integrations and staged releases. The work is ongoing.
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E-commerce · Website
easyStorage Netherlands
Took over the inherited booking app, refactored its code and developed the React and Next.js frontend with backend helpers, integrations and release checks. ANODA coordinates staged releases alongside the client’s other teams; the engagement is ongoing.
- 300+ Screens designed
- 1,200+ Hours across the ongoing engagement
A clear delivery boundary makes implementation predictable.
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Design direction agreed
The design direction and important workflows are agreed.
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Repository and API access
Your team can provide the required repository, API and environment context.
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Engineering owners in place
Engineering owners can resolve integration questions and review changes.
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Criteria before delivery
Acceptance criteria and release responsibilities can be defined before delivery.
Tell us what your product needs
Share where the product is and what has to change. We will come back with a useful scope and a realistic next step.
How the engagement works
What we need from your team, who does what, and what happens after the handoff.
What we need to start
- Design scope
- The selected screens and the design the implementation is built from.
- Repository
- The repository, stack and component approach we would work in.
- APIs and environment
- The agreed APIs and an environment to call them from.
- Engineering owner
- Someone who can resolve integration questions and review changes.
Who does what
- ANODA
- reviews the design and the existing frontend, builds the agreed scope, runs the checks and documents the work.
- Your team
- provides access and context, answers integration questions and reviews the change set.
After handoff Release responsibilities are agreed separately; production deployment is not assumed from frontend work alone. Maintenance, future features and operational response need an explicit agreement rather than an open-ended assumption.
In the client's words
The website design brings the storage offer and booking steps into a more consistent experience. We appreciated the attention to how someone moves from understanding the service to choosing an option, with the account-related screens considered as part of that journey.
What does your team need to bring into the product?
Share the design scope, existing frontend and main integration constraints. We will discuss a delivery boundary and the checks needed to make the interface ready for your next step.
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Within 15 minutes, we’ll email you initial feedback and follow-up questions.
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Frontend Engineering: common questions
Can you work in our existing frontend?
We review the repository, component approach and API contracts with your engineers, then agree an implementation plan that fits the existing product. Reuse comes first; the scope identifies the components and interactions that need replacing.
Do you build the backend too?
This service is scoped around frontend engineering and agreed integrations. New backend services, databases, infrastructure and operational ownership are not implied. If the interface depends on changes there, we identify the dependency with your engineers.
Can you implement designs created by another team?
Yes, subject to a review of the design and implementation requirements. We clarify missing states, responsive behaviour and interaction details before they become assumptions in code. The original design ownership and approval path remain explicit.
Is accessibility included?
We agree accessibility requirements for the implemented workflows, including keyboard access, focus, labels, validation and assistive-technology behaviour. The code and test evidence show your engineers what has been checked and how to keep those behaviours in later releases.
Does delivery include deployment?
Release responsibilities are agreed separately. The scope may end with a reviewable change set or include an approved environment delivery. Production deployment requires the appropriate access, checks and release ownership; it is not assumed from frontend work alone.
What happens after handoff?
Your engineering team receives the agreed code and documentation. We can discuss implementation follow-up or ongoing support, but maintenance, future features and operational response need an explicit agreement rather than an open-ended assumption.