{"id":43507,"date":"2018-01-10T02:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/cascading-ux-specifications\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T02:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:04:13","slug":"cascading-ux-specifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/cascading-ux-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascading UX Specifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uxmatters.com\/authors\/archives\/2012\/04\/steven_hoober.php\">Steven Hoober<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A common complaint about bringing UX designers onto a project team is that they waste time creating design artifacts. This is purportedly antithetical to modern development methodologies that value code over process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-p\">However, this is not my experience at all. I&#8217;m not arguing that creating design artifacts is all that design is about. I default to fairly light documentation myself&#8212;and not one in 100 project teams or clients wants as little design documentation as I would typically provide by default.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-p\">One of my more common jobs is to improve or replace the design for an existing product for a client. All too often, these projects have no historical documentation of any value, which frequently causes projects to take months or even years longer to build.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-p\">Good documentation allows consistency in design and execution and serves as institutional knowledge for organizations. 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