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| Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning | 
| Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: New Riders Press
Category: Book
List Price: $44.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 6975
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0321392353
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780321392350
ASIN: 0321392353
Publication Date: September 16, 2006
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 What a relief May 24, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
As soon as I picked up this book, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I've been working with wireframes for many years, and creating them for a couple of years, but it's my experience that everyone does them differently, and so I gratefully welcome an overview of the basics.
I almost don't dare to write this next thing, so unbelieving am I at my good luck, but here are all the documents he covers, filling in holes in my knowledge base:
1. Personas
2. Usability test plans
3. Usability reports
4. Competitive analysis
5. Concept models
6. Content inventories
7. Site maps
8. Flow charts
9. Wireframes
10. Screen designs
As he says in his preface, it's a how-to book. It's a cookbook. It's for people who make the docs, people who use the docs, and people who review the docs.
I'm really excited. Methodology is great, but what a joy it is to just get some basic templates!
The strength in refining every day deliverables from the man who knows it best! May 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've said it before about Dan Brown and will say it again. He earns such respect from his expertise not just in his active pursuit of advancing the UX industry, but in his prowess to apply these perspectives to every day realities.
Just for a second, step away from other publications hammering UX industry "required" vocabularies driven by buzz words and marketing efforts. Leave generalized high level, often siloed deliverables behind you. These have been long thought of as qualifiers that seem to legitimize an IA, UX lead, or Creative Director's influence on a project, but often fall short when the "grand UX process" is chopped down.
Dan Brown takes all of these best known practices and applies them to your every day projects, realistically, effectively, and ultimately smarter. The true benefit from this book lies in the simple principle often over looked when cranking out work. The value of your deliverables impacts the future of your upcoming deliverables. While you may know some tricks of the trade, Dan guides you in great detail ways to finesse and refine what you already have built (or may be building). He calls attention to the important aspects these deliverables add such as strength to upcoming documentation and validation to previous documentation.
And if that were not enough, he outlines the best approach to take when challenged by clients seeking validity to these deliverables.
This book has been by my side since I purchased it last fall. I refer to it so many times when I need real-world solutions and client interfacing insights.
Here's to hoping he has a follow up book!
 An essential text for beginning information architects May 7, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dan Brown's book is a great supplement to Morville and Rosenfeld's Information Architecture providing detailed information on producing effective deliverables and communicating findings from research. Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning provides the information every student in information architecture wants to know - how do I apply my knowledge in a report and communicate it to clients.
Worth it's weight in gold... May 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great. The author gives concepts, not single objectives and a full overview of how your team and client will approach these documents.
If you had to get a book successful web projects, rush to the bookstore and get this! December 29, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love this book! Brown definitely knows his stuff, which makes sense since he talks about deliverables and documentation, you'd think he would know how to write a book about communicating his ideas to an audience. Awesome job Mr. Brown. Thank you for coming up with this gem! It has templates galore to keep your project organized. I'm a librarian so I have read many, many books that talk about information organization, but this book stands out because the information and samples make you think of your particular project. The reader is prompted to consider details that most books overlook or assume the reader already knows. Can't wait for the next book by this author!
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