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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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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you work in web product design or development, you will be well aware of the challenges of creating and communicating web design documentation. Dan Brown, a respected information architect, has put together a really useful book, covering the most crucial documentation that every effective web project will require. As an aspiring Information Architect I found the sections on design documentation including site maps, flow charts and wireframes really useful. Brown utilises a layered approach to producing documentation, which starts with the most important elements and then builds additional detail in subsequent layers. Whatever your level of experience, this book brings real clarity to producing the documentation that can make or break a web project.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great book for dipping into (Brown cites numerous practical examples and techniques), but a heavy going read if you like doing things cover-to-cover.
The text books I like tend to have a very clear structure intended to make learning easy, but the mass of detail and alternative ways of doing things that Brown includes makes spotting and digesting the key points hard work.
If I could I'd give the content 4 or 5 stars, and its structure a lowly 3.
Still glad I bought it though.
The text books I like tend to have a very clear structure intended to make learning easy, but the mass of detail and alternative ways of doing things that Brown includes makes spotting and digesting the key points hard work.
If I could I'd give the content 4 or 5 stars, and its structure a lowly 3.
Still glad I bought it though.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dan's book is of profound relevance to anyone involved in producing web design documentation. During his day-long tutorial workshop at User Experience 2006 in London Dan taught me more about producing effective and compelling user-experience documentation than anything I'd learned at any time since 2001 and it's all in this book. His is the most comprehensive guide to allowing our work to inform and shape the creation of ground-breaking information architecture and yet it has been written in an accessible, friendly and authoritative manner. This book and Dan's regular contributions to Boxes and Arrows and the IA institute are essential reading for aspiring and practising user-experience professionals.
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Too much text and very few examples
There is too much text in this book. When I bought this book, I thought that there would be several images and screenshots of examples. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Syed Ali Naqvi
Horrible for a design book
Book about design should be pretty and have a nice layout. This doesn't. Not inspirational at all. Boring. DO NOT BUY.
Published 15 months ago by tokidoki
A handy collection of reporting templates
The book is not so much about actual design as it is about "communicating design".
If you treat it as such it is a helpful set of documentation templates. Read more
If you treat it as such it is a helpful set of documentation templates. Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Michal Pryslopski
Very useful reference
I really like the way this book is structured and how it reads. It covers the most important aspects of User Experience Design and to a good enough level. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2010 by Tiger Woods
This book is a treasure map to the promised land of articulating...
This book was recommended by a collegue who performs most of our site IA. The book made working together in the short term so much easier! Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2007 by Carter Stewart
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