# Object-Oriented UI Design: How You Can Collaborate Seamlessly with Developers and Build Better Products

DevFeed: [Object-Oriented UI Design: How You Can Collaborate Seamlessly with Developers and Build Better Products](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/object-oriented-ui-design-how-you-can-collaborate-seamlessly-with-developers-and-build-better-products-31384.md>)

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Author: William Hudson

Published: 2026-09-16T09:07:08Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [UX Daily - User Experience Daily](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ux-daily-user-experience-daily.md>)

Topics: [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [user-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-testing.md>)

## AI overview

This video tutorial explains object-oriented UI design as a way for designers and developers to share a conceptual model. It uses familiar objects such as appointments, their attributes, and their operations to clarify collaboration and create more natural interfaces.

## Source excerpt

You're at your routine health checkup, sipping an iced coffee on a hot day. Suddenly, you get a sharp pain in your head. The doctor looks up from her notes, a sympathetic expression on her face. "You're experiencing sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia." Your heart sinks. The coffee cup drops to the floor. Medication? Surgery? How long do you have? "Sorry! Doctor speak," she says, noticing your panic. "You have brain freeze." Two completely different terms for the exact same thing, and one of them nearly gave you a panic attack.Designers and developers do this to each other all the time. You call it an "appointment," the developer calls it an "event," and the database calls it a "record." Everyon...