On 8/11/08, Chris Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There¹s been a fair amount of discussion here about documentation formats > and software used to produce wireframes, prototypes, and so on. But how do > people manage an entire specification? I have been using a hand-coded > intranet site, controlled via subversion; but my team is growing and I¹m > considering other ways to manage the information. Web access and formats > (not, for instance, Word documents) and some sort of version control are my > main requirements, along with relative ease of editing. What do people use? > Blogs, wikis?
The Big Giant Spec Document, while a creature that is slowly starting to become more rare, will always be with us. But one thing I've found that is a nice way around it is annotated prototypes. I'm a huge Axure fan for many reasons, but one thing it allows me to do is to generate my prototypes in such a way that someone viewing the prototype (which is in HTML) can click on an icon by any object on the page to reveal its annotations. You can also look at notes for the page overall. V5 of Axure has implemented what I think is a Subversion sharing and versioning system, so it should meet your versioning requirements in that way. You'd have to go back to a previous version of the Axure file and re-generate the prototype from that. It's not a big deal, but it's not like flipping pages to see what was in version 8. F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Beecher Sr. User Experience Consultant Evantage Consulting O: 612.230.3838 // M: 612.810.6745 IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (google/msn) // fredevc (aim/yahoo) T: http://twitter.com/fred_beecher ________________________________________________________________ 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
