We have moved away from comprehensive PRD, DRD and TRD's. They are slow, painful. They also tend to reduce dialog. As a designer, I really like the interaction and realtime dialog with the dev group. They are included up front so that the communication during the dev cycle is pretty open. This helps to make the dev review a little less harsh. As for docs, we deliver mocks - typically as pdf with layered annotation. Often times we script the interactions with flash or html, but that is fairly rare. We also have a wiki for nearly every project and nearly daily team updates.
Mark On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Celeste 'seele' Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the things I am interested as a designer is how we can work better > with > developers. If you are lucky enough to work as part of an in-house team > you > probably (hopefully) have a stronger relationship with developers than > those > of use who only come in as consultants. Often as a consultant, the only > contact we have with the development team might be through the project > manager or technical lead. So we must rely on our design documents to > deliver our message. > > Although we would all like our deliverables to be developer-friendly, they > don't always turn out that way. Many of the guidelines I've read for > creating client deliverables focus on impressing the client and not > necessarily getting work done. Sure, they also try to present the > information in a way that readers can understand them, but project > managers > are a much different audience than developers who are actually doing the > work. > > 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 > > -- > Celeste 'seele' Paul > www.obso1337.org > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
