Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design And Planning

Daniel M. Brown

Peachpit Press/New Riders, 2007 - Computers - 352 pages

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.

What people are saying

User Review -

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
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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. 

Review: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

User Review  - Scurry - Goodreads

A great resource for both seasoned and novice designers. A lot of tips and examples of good business practice to aid the designer in communicating effectively and maintaining good project management.

Contents

• o Introduction: 1
• Part One User Needs Documents: 13
• o Usability Reports: 73

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design And Planning
• Author: Daniel M. Brown
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Peachpit Press/New Riders, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 20, 2007
• ISBN: 0321392353, 9780321392350
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Web / Design; Computers / Web / Page Design; Technology & Engineering / Electrical