Though I do not have any research to backup your question, I do have a lot of experience with handing off my designs/code to developers.
Rule #1: Be as specific as possible! :) Our team typically goes through many iterations of design with the business clients and project manager before handing anything to developers. With this audience, we are presenting "glossy" mockups of the application along with any necessary large-print diagrams. We are doing everything possible to sell the design to the clients. At the point of handing off to developers, we repackage the designs into something more relevent to the developers. We call this converted document a User Interface Specification Document. This document has a screenshot of the mockup with numbers next to all of the screen components (fields, labels, images, widgets, etc). Later in the document we list the numbers along with all the necessary data that a developer cares about: field length, validation, onblur, onfocus, onload, size, height, width, etc... In this way, we hand off a high-fidelity mockup with a detailed document explaining how everything works on the screen. Does that help? Rob On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:15:33 -0500, "Celeste 'seele' Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of studies or other research that explicitly looks at how > developers are using design deliverables in practice? Particularly > integrating things such as wireframes in to functional specifications. Or > even if developers "get" the wireframes and mockups we give them. I've > found > that developers prefer annotated slides or a big numbered list of issues > to > having to read anything big, but those types of things don't look as nice > as > a fully written final report for the project manager. > > Thoughts? > > ~ Celeste ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
