Partly this depends on the skills and composition of your team. Visual design specs are part of the UI spec, but they tend to be created by different people.
Is there an existing corporate styleguide with branding that documents colors, type, etc? If so, reference it as part of the UI spec. Of course typography isn't purely visual design, and shouldn't be specced in isolation, without considering typical content. Otherwise you can end up with bright orange type that looks great but distracts from what's important on the page, or type that's too small for your middle-aged finance users, or beautiful headings that aren't obviously clickable. And in answer to your final question about developing web applications, the key is prototyping early so that you can iterate the whole, rather than having four different people producing lengthy documents on paper, each representing their part of the elephant. The design deliverables (and team) needed for a corporate website are very different from web apps or intranet tools or a kiosk. Diana On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:57 PM, shivan kannan<[email protected]> wrote: > I understand creating the following different deliverable documents in > order: > > 1. Creating user personas > 2. Scenarios > 3. High level use cases document > 4. Requirements specifications document > 5. Low-level use cases document > 6. Design draft documents > 7. Wireframes creation > 8. Task flow diagrams > 9. UI specification document > 10. Help manual, user documents > > I would like to know where or which from the above includes the > following documents/ document parts: > 1. Typography specifications > 2. Color palettes info > 3. Iconography > > At least I know that I have not seen them in any UI specification > documents so far. > > Few related questions: > 1. These are deliverables by graphic designer, UI designer or > UX practitioner? > 2. Who will benefit from them? Who can possibly use them in an > application development senario? > 3. How important are they to include in a complex web based > application that involve quite a bit of artistic look and feel UI, or > for example: developing a kiosk UI. > > Id be pleased if anyone can hint/ share. Thanks. > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
