Overview

To inform design and development and ensure that QA is done in regard to a common core Cantilever standard of quality, we have created this document to outline what we and our clients expect of a Cantilever product.

Different projects will have different requirements in various areas. An internal app, for instance, must be incredibly fast, but doesn’t require any SEO attention. A blog, meanwhile, doesn’t need much visual polish, but SEO is imperative. The documentation for each project should outline our and the client’s expectations within each category.

Requirements Matrix

Design Fidelity

For projects with design comps, we always expect that any final comps are obeyed. In all projects there are grey areas, since comps cannot be responsive, and cannot possibly display all application states, so frontend devs are expected to use good judgment in extending the design team’s intent throughout the full site experience. The exceptions are when:

Other than that, please pay very close attention to detail in frontend work. Comparing the comp to your frontend at the same screen size, any differences should stem from one of the above reasons.