communicating design
sometimes, about half of my working day is spent on meetings, emails and IMs to discuss project specs, wireframes, mockup revisions and screen designs. Coupled that with multiple sessions of usability research, design brainstorming and well, arguing with my boss, communicating about design is becoming, at least in my case, as important as doing the actual work of design itself.
And I think I might have found the book that will help me improve in that area. I just finished the first chapter of Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning and this point made me chuckled and nodding in agreement.
Send materials around before the meeting. Perhaps this seems counter-intuitive to you, but sending materials around in advance of the meeting means you can dig into the meat of the documents without having to spend much time on background … Some people think that sending the materials around can backfire by revealing the punch line to some elaborate story. Keep in mind that you’re designing a web site, not telling a joke.
Can’t wait to finish it. Special thanks goes to Hui Nee and Amazon’s wish list :).
