Enabling Non-Technical Stakeholders to Build UI with Reusable Components
Low code collaboration: empowering non-technical team members to create consistent UIs, suggest code changes, and enhance collaboration.
Effective communication between non-technical stakeholders and developers is a recurring challenge in software development. Traditional workflows often require product managers or designers to describe desired UI changes in abstract terms, leading to misunderstandings, inefficiencies, and iterative back-and-forths.
With reusable Bit components and Hope AI, teams can overcome this challenge. Non-technical stakeholders can directly suggest UI changes using Bit’s collaborative platform, asking Hope AI to compose new UIs or modify existing ones with vetted reusable components. This approach simplifies collaboration, enhances communication, and ensures design consistency across projects.
What Are Bit Components?
Bit components are reusable units of software designed for composable application development. Think of them as super-packages that can be installed as regular npm packages but can also be modified and collaborated on without the need for a repository or a build setup.
Hosted on the Bit Platform, these component include documentation, usage examples, a dependency graph, and much more. Anything you need to understand a how a component can and should be used.
The amount of information every Bit component includes makes them ideal for AI and humans who are looking to compose new UIs using components built and shared by others.
The Role of Vetted Components
Vetted components are rigorously tested and aligned with organizational standards, serving as building blocks for new UIs. By ensuring quality and compliance, they allow teams to focus on innovation rather than debugging inconsistencies.
New UIs can be composed by non-technical team members without compromising the project’s robustness, consistency and maintainability.
Hope AI: Bridging the Gap Between Stakeholders and Developers
Transforming Contributions with Hope AI
Hope AI empowers non-technical team members to suggest actionable, code-based changes to UIs rather than describing desired outcomes abstractly. With access to reusable Bit components, stakeholders can ask Hope AI to compose or modify UIs directly.
For example, a product manager can prompt Hope AI:
“Create a dashboard with real-time data charts and a user settings panel using existing components.”
Hope AI then composes the dashboard using vetted Bit components, which can be previewed, reviewed, and refined collaboratively.
Benefits of Hope AI-Driven Collaboration
- Actionable Input: Stakeholders suggest code changes directly rather than relying on descriptions.
- Visual Previews: Generated UIs can be previewed instantly, bridging the gap between ideas and implementation.
- Iterative Refinement: Teams can quickly review and iterate on UIs using Hope AI’s suggestions, streamlining workflows.
Enhancing Communication and Contribution
The combination of reusable Bit components and Hope AI creates a shared workspace where stakeholders of all levels of coding skills collaborate seamlessly. For example:
- A product manager requests a new feature by prompting Hope AI.
- Hope AI generates a ‘change request’ (the Bit equivalent of Pull Requests) that includes previews, documentation and tests. As mentioned, the new UI is a composition of the organization’s existing components.
- The product manager reviews the output directly on the Bit Platform and suggests tweaks using further prompts with immediate feedback using previews and automated tests and builds.
- Once the iterative process is done, the product manager send the change request to the relevant reviewers
This iterative process eliminates ambiguity and ensures that all feedback is anchored in the actual implementation .
Benefits of Combining Reusable Bit Components and Hope AI
For Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Empowerment: Directly contribute to implementation through AI-assisted tools.
- Clarity: Preview and refine UIs visually without needing to write code from scratch.
- Efficiency: Collaborate on a shared platform, reducing communication overhead.
For Developers
- Focus: Spend more time on complex tasks while stakeholders handle simpler UI compositions.
- Consistency: Ensure all UIs are built with vetted components, maintaining design and functional standards.
- Speed: Leverage Hope AI to generate initial drafts of UIs for faster iteration.
For the Organization
- Alignment: Foster stronger collaboration between technical and non-technical teams.
- Quality: Ensure all contributions align with the organization’s UI and coding standards.
- Scalability: Build modular applications faster with reusable Bit components.
Conclusion
The combination of reusable Bit components, Hope AI, and the Bit Platform transforms how teams build UIs. Non-technical stakeholders gain the tools to contribute directly and effectively, suggesting code changes instead of abstract requests. Developers, in turn, benefit from improved clarity, faster iterations, and high-quality contributions.
This collaborative model fosters a stronger alignment between business goals and technical execution, enabling teams to innovate faster while maintaining consistency and quality.
