Talking about a doc spec in the 3rd person -- well - not too useful.
Share your templates or shut the f($&k up .
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On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Interesting back story... While I have no idea where the current
spec/documentation formats or standards are for PayPal today, they
got their starting documents from me even if the folks there didn't
realize it. My wife was one of the first designers on the team when
PayPal got started and she came home one day and asked for help on
documenting a new feature they were building. I basically gave her a
trimmed down version of the design spec formats we used at Abode to
document the common interface for the early versions of the Creative
Suite.
That original format was developed by David Valiulis when he joined
the design team at Adobe back in the mid-90s. He is one of the best
tech writers I ever had the pleasure to work with in this industry.
I've always had to deal with the design specification in my career,
as much as I have hated to do so. It's a necessary task though. I'd
be happy to contribute to a standard open-source format that any
design team could use if someone was interested in leading such a
project. I don't currently have the time to lead one, but can easily
help such an effort and share what I know works and what doesn't
based on the numerous specs I've been involved with at a variety of
levels.
I've always felt interface designers lack a good means to spec their
work. A "blessed" format that comes from the industry would go a
long ways towards bringing even more creditability to the profession
as a whole.
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Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
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On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Jamie McAtee wrote:
Right now our small team is communicating UI changes and enhancements
with developers using PowerPoint mock ups with notes. I am concerned
this will eventually backfire and would like to bring a little more
formality to the process.
Is anyone willing to share their UI spec document and/or
recommendations for putting together a spec? I have used the PayPal
format before but it has been a while and I don't remember everything
that was in it.
Since our team is very small I don't want to bring about a lot of
paperwork just something to make sure we have all of our bases
covered.
Thanks,
Jamie
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