Specs and Happy Clients

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"I know that "no specs" is very big right now, with high-profile designers insisting that you don't need to do any kind of documenting or specs, that you just need to make a few sketches and then start writing HTML prototypes, re-writing it until the customer likes it. This sounds suspiciously like the code-and-fix model, which we all know is garbage. Even worse, it sounds like undisciplined, hippy-dippy, egocentric, "I am an artiste" thinking. In fact, I dare say that it is non-design. For God's sake, people, we're in a pseudo-engineering profession. Act like it. Plan your work ahead of time, at least the important parts of it."

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I'd also add that the no spec folks tend to generally be talking about in house projects with very small teams. I've done no spec work with consulting clients and it's a total nightmare.

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Heh. That post has only been up for a few hours and I'm already getting flame mail. It's hilarious to me that when people get called on lazy practices, they lash out instead of owning up.

*shrug*

This business attracts some wacky folks.
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Created by Christopher Hawkins on 05.26.2006 2:05 pm

 

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