RE: [GD-Design] Design Documents

[Jamie F. <ja...@qu...>]

I think you need to be careful. A load of document that becomes meaningless
when you start implementing something is bad; but for a designer to know
when that happens takes experience, as they don't generally understand
what's going on under the bonnet (US: hood).

Jamie


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
Matthew Newport
Sent: 06 November 2001 14:32
To: gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-Design] Design Documents


I don't really have an answer to your questions but I have one to add :-)

How long and how detailed are people's design docs generally? I personally
feel that our design docs could do with being a little longer and more in
depth but I don't know how they compare to those used elsewhere in the
industry. I read in the Deus Ex post mortem that their design doc ran to
hundreds of pages, which is rather more detail than we have in ours...

Matt.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Harris [mailto:ph...@me...]
> Sent: 06 November 2001 14:04
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Design] Design Documents
>
>
> Two questions about design docs.
>
> Firstly, given that for a reasonable size project the design
> doc is going to
> exceed several hundred pages, how do people organise them.
> Single word doc,
> multiple word docs, HTML?
>
> Secondly, are these documents kept up to date and if so how?
>
> Or...does nobody bother with them in the first place.
>
> Phil
>
>
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