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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, 2nd Edition
- By Dan M. Brown
- Published Sep 15, 2010 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 11" x 8-1/2"
- Pages: 312
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-71246-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-71246-2
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-138540-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-138540-5
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Successful web design teams depend on clear communication between developers and their clients—and among members of the development team. Wireframes, site maps, flow charts, and other design diagrams establish a common language so designers and project teams can capture ideas, track progress, and keep their stakeholders informed.
In this all new edition of Communicating Design, author and information architect Dan Brown defines and describes each deliverable, then offers practical advice for creating the documents and using them in the context of teamwork and presentations, independent of methodology. Whatever processes, tools, or approaches you use, this book will help you improve the creation and presentation of your wireframes, site maps, flow charts, and other deliverables.
The book now features:
- An improved structure comprising two main sections: Design Diagrams and Design Deliverables. The first focuses on the nuts and bolts of design documentation and the second explains how to pull it all together.
- New deliverable: design briefs, as well as updated advice on wireframes, flow charts, and concept models.
- More illustrations, to help designers understand the subtle variations and approaches to creating design diagrams.
- Reader exercises, for those lonely nights when all you really want to do is practice creating wireframes, or for use in workshops and classes.
- Contributions from industry leaders: Tamara Adlin, Stephen Anderson, Dana Chisnell, Nathan Curtis, Chris Fahey, James Melzer, Steve Mulder, Donna Spencer, and Russ Unger.
“As an educator, I have looked to Communicating Design both as a formal textbook and an informal guide for its design systems that ultimately make our ideas possible and the complex clear.”
—Liz Danzico, from the Foreword
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Second Edition is Even Better!, By Amelia "Amelia" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
A great update to the first edition, which was a classic. This belongs in the reference library of every web and user experience designer. Although Dan Brown clearly wrote this with web designers from the IA/UX persuasion in mind, there's guidance throughout that can be leveraged by those from other design and creative disciplines that need to communicate their work to various audiences.For me, that's the secret sauce that makes this book so valuable. Besides the excellent information (and more illustrations) on structure and tools for creating effective communications, it provides guidance on when and how to frame and use different types of communications (deliverables or diagrams) to facilitate discussions, work with stakeholders, clients, and other contributors, and enable projects to move forward. If you work with clients or stakeholders (what designer doesn't?), this book will help you be more successful.
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This review is from: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
OK, I'm biased, but I love this book. Dan did such a great job creating a book that you actually WANT to come back to time and again. If you're like me, you probably have lots of books on your shelf, and they look nice up there, but you may not take them down and actually use them very much. This book might not look as nice on your shelf, because you'll use it so much that it will get beat up. Which is a good thing.
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This review is from: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
This book was a great resource in giving best practices of how to display complicated UX ideas and design. The cherry on top was that each design section also comes with suggestions on how to run a client through a meeting using the tools referenced.
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Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning: Concept Models
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Part 1: Design Diagrams
2 Diagram Basics
3 Personas
4 Concept Models
5 Site Maps
6 Flowcharts
7 Wireframes
Part 2: Design Deliverables
8 Deliverable Basics
9 Design Briefs
10 Competitive Reviews
11 Usability Plans
12 Usability Reports
Index
Errata
In the Index, "Ross Unger" should be "Russ Unger"
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