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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

by Dan Brown

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Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables — the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you're required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible. He begins with an introductory section about deliverables and their place in the overall process, and then delves into to the different types of deliverables. From usability reports to project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more, each chapter includes a contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, a description of the development process and the deliverable's impact on the project, and more.

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It's up to the designer to not only do it right but also to let the client see what's being done, and to capture ideas, track progress, and make sure everyone is singing from the same page. Consultant Brown describes the ten basic deliverables as belonging to three basic types, thereby making it much easier to sort out who gets what and when. He works in layers with user needs documents (personas, usability test plans and usability reports), strategy documents (competitive analyses, concept models, and content inventory) and finally with design documents (site maps, flow charts, wire frames and screen designs) on top. The logic of Brown's ideas works well at a practical as well as theoretical basis, because he shows why user needs and strategy documents come first, before planners start playing with all the cool software.
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It's up to the designer to not only do it right but also to let the client see what's being done, and to capture ideas, track progress, and make sure everyone is singing from the same page. Consultant Brown describes the ten basic deliverables as belonging to three basic types, thereby making it much easier to sort out who gets what and when. He works in layers with user needs documents (personas, usability test plans and usability reports), strategy documents (competitive analyses, concept models, and content inventory) and finally with design documents (site maps, flow charts, wire frames and screen designs) on top. The logic of Brown's ideas works well at a practical as well as theoretical basis, because he shows why user needs and strategy documents come first, before planners start playing with all the cool software. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

Dan Brown has been practicing information architecture and user experience design since 1994. Through his consulting work in both public and private sectors, he has improved enterprise communications for both Federal and Fortune 500 clients, currently the Federal Communications Commission. Dan writes and speaks frequently on information architecture, and contributed to the inaugural issue of UX Matters, a new online magazine dedicated to user experience design. Dan is very active in the local Washington, DC information architecture community, and serves on the advisory board for the Information Architecture Institute.

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michaljagiela, February 24, 2008 (view all comments by michaljagiela)
Developing professional web applications is very hard process. Additiona, professional planning and creating projects is very,

very hard process and something people can't have a good start. Building professional website is long process, where we must talk

with others developers, how building business logic, concept models, usability, create user experiences and more.

In this book You can find complete vision how professional team can working to building a good vision web sites projects, concepts

and delivery this project to developing for programmers. Easy comments, diagrams, models and presented reports in every page in

this book is the best method to inform you how you can create professional project. Every books from Peachpit is easy to learn and

have a friendly text. From novice to professional is good slogan for this and others books ...

In this book you find:
- how started build good project for website.
- what do people think of your site desing.
- usability and user experiences concepts.
- how create good site model for innovative and modern website.

Very useful elements in this book is checklist panel, where You can submit your record and check your status of project, with professional metodology model. Additional, combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you're required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible.

Summary, if you think create good website, you must have this book. When I create first big project with this book I easly create concepts and models, with short then ever time.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780321392350
Subtitle:
Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Author:
Brown, Dan
Author:
Brown, Dan M.
Author:
Brown, Daniel E.
Author:
Brown, Daniel M.
Publisher:
New Riders Press
Subject:
Internet - Web Site Design
Subject:
Electronic data processing documentation
Subject:
Web site development
Subject:
Web - Page Design
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Voices That Matter
Publication Date:
September 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
9 x 7.23 x 0.708 in 599 gr

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