I suspect we’ve all been on the receiving end of poorly-designed documents: pages drowning in enormous gray oceans of text with no navigational cues whatsoever; emphasis indicated by text that is bold ...

In most cases, the design that used a lot of photos and icons is an excellent tool that can show important information clearly. Compared to documents without pictures, 60% of readers who read a ...

[This is another guest post by Evan Snider, a doctoral fellow in Rhetoric and Writing atVirginia Tech. His research interests include visual communication, digital writing, and professional writing ...

Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...

Ask most electronics developers what they do for a living and, most of the time, you’ll get an answer describing the kinds of products they develop. But the truth of the matter is much more mundane.

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...