Lecture10
- 1. Made by- Vidushi Gupta Assistant professor English & Hss Jiet Institute of Design & Technology
- 4. Elements of Document Design “When you are designing your document’s layout, it is just as important to know your audience as when you are planning your document’s text” – Consistent use of elements creates a sense of a unified document. – Headings and lists help readers note different sections.
- 6. Effective documentation is compiled information that triages multiple sources of input, and assembles them in a coherent fashion, allowing for a narrative to be built around the product or feature that is being built within an organization. One of the results and outputs of this effective documentation building, is software requirements, which become crucial for designers to understand what they’re effectively solving for.
- 7. How is documentation created? Documentation can be surfaced should be presented in a way that is digestible by different team members (designers, developers, project and product managers, stakeholders). Documentation is created by exposing a strategy that demonstrates the and presented on a multitude of platforms these days. Following a process of research, of defining design patterns, of gathering user testing data (in any context, from initial validation, through concept testing, pre-deployment testing, among others), all this information process by which a solution is being achieved, one that marries different variables from design through development and implementation. Translating all these sources of information into a coherent narrative, is crucial.
- 8. How is documentation effectively used? I’ve come to realize that effective documentation paints a succinct picture, allowing for the designer (in this particular case), to perceive the context of the problem being addressed, and therefore enabling the professional to focus on finding a solution (one that is not hindered by factors that sometimes may be unknown, such as legal, localization and cultural requirements). By having useful information available, but more importantly, by having effective documentation compiled, it facilitates the design process, enabling designers, development and product teams to have a better flow in terms of productivity (measured in successful iterative processes, workshops and other relevant activities).
- 9. Measuring the success of documentation properly gathered. In order to summarize this article and to best advocate for the usage and creation of effective documentation, I’ll reinstate something that I’ve witnessed while working in different types of enterprises. Consistent, clear, and detailed documentation empower the designer (and teams), to understand context, narrative, and generate a more effective problem solving process, one that is flexible and ever evolving, but also prescient of how other teams within the enterprise are impacted by their decisions.
- 12. Document Structure By using grids and whitespace, you can keep content interesting and clear: Grids Think about a document in terms of sections, using placeholders to organize text and graphics. White Space "Experts have learned that readers are attracted to text when white space surrounds it" White space can be used in margins, hanging indents, line spacing, paragraph length, and paragraph indenting among other textual spacing techniques
- 13. Content Structure Two major elements: Lists Help you group information for easier reading, helps emphasize important points, help organize information chronologically. Lists should be formatted and follow guidelines such as keeping items within the list as short as possible and keeping lists parallel in format.
- 14. Content Structure Headings Use at least one heading per page of a document Use substantive wording (Instead of "Costs" use "Production Costs of the FastCopy800) • Use parallel form in wording-headings of equal value and degree should have the same grammatical form (Using the SmartArt Tool, Adding New Slides, Arranging Slide Elements, are all parallel in grammatical form) Establish a clear hierarchy with formatting/bolding (make sure readers can tell a heading 1 from a heading 2 User larger type-size for higher level headings; heading position to show ranking (center a title, for example); and typographic elements (bolding italics, color, underline) Use decimal headings for longer, formal documents