[IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

[Angel Anderson]

I work in house, side-by-side with the developers so I have the luxury
of collaborating often and verbally walking them through my form &
behavior specs to answer questions that arise. We even get to have
regular, iterative comparative reviews between what's in the spec
and what they've been developing so that the final product is what I
envisioned.  A recent acquisition however has meant that I'm now also
designing specs for a team in London and another team in India - talk
about things getting lost in translation!  

Now I have to be more exact than ever but this is good for me - it
forces me to be even more clear and rigorous. At the end of the day
it all comes down to what Rob listed as Rule # 1: Be as specific as
possible! 

I would also add rules 2 & 3: 

# 2: A picture is worth a thousand words - make the pictures tell the
story as much as possible.

# 3: Be concise! Nobody wants to read a 500 page spec no matter how
pretty it is. ;-)


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