Brown, Dan M.(2007).communicating Design:developing Web Site Documentation For Design And Planning.berkeley, Ca:new Riders.352 Pages

摘要

Most mainstream discussions about Web design seem to focus on the tactics of design, coding, or production, ignoring the fact that most successful Web projects rely on a broad set of documents to facilitate communication between designers, clients, and other project stakeholders. In Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Brown provides a rhetorical framework for documenting Web work by discussing three sets of documents: (1) those that describe the needs of site visitors, (2) those that detail what site visitors will experience, and (3) those that outline the site's functionality and corresponding design. Brown offers guidelines for how to create a set of deliverables with the appropriate level of detailed information based on the context within which they will be used. He describes this as a layered approach in which the first layer of detail captures only the most important elements of a given document; the second layer, a mediated one, provides some additional background and limited context to help those reading a document; and the third layer captures a significant level of detail in order to put the document within the larger context of the project. As such, Brown's advice is helpful in illustrating how to create the documentation that will most efficiently help facilitate communication between those working directly on a Web-design project and other stakeholders.