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# Boosts design strategy skills Comprehensive deliverables coverage Structured professional documentation Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

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## Key Features

- • **Practical & Accessible:** Glossy, well-spaced pages with friendly diagrams make complex concepts easy to digest.
- • **Career-Boosting Insights:** Equip yourself with indispensable skills for web design planning and documentation.
- • **Strategic Design Framework:** Build competitive reviews and usability plans that elevate your project’s impact.
- • **Business-Ready Documentation:** Learn how to present and negotiate your design deliverables like a pro in meetings.
- • **Master Essential Web Deliverables:** From personas to flowcharts, nail every design artifact with clarity and precision.

## Overview

Communicating Design by Dan M. Brown is a definitive guide for professionals aiming to master website documentation and design planning. This second edition covers key deliverables like personas, wireframes, site maps, and flowcharts, emphasizing both technical creation and business presentation. Ideal for web designers and developers, it offers structured strategies to produce polished, professional reports that enhance communication and project success.

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Review: Excellent for Deliverables: Personas, flowcharts, wireframes, etc. - Communicating Design Second Edition by Dan M. Brown is a delightful read--one especially suited for those taking Web programming courses or wanting to learn the inside strategies on Web site design/programming preparation. The book starts off by covering the fundamentals of wireframes, personas, site maps, concept models, and flowcharts. These components of the book are not only technical in a how-to format, but also practical in a business sense. In fact, Dan Brown makes a point of stressing how to negotiate these "deliverables" in business meetings, in essence preparing the reader for a career in design strategies. The second part of the book not only emphasizes how to format the products (i.e., wireframes, personas, etc) into professional deliverables through providing structure for the reports, but also delves into competitive reviews, usability plans, and usability reports. Of most interest to me was the competitive review, as it helped establish the framework (including site map) of a site I'm about to build. One easily overlooked shortcoming of the book is that it doesn't spend the time on research strategies, such as focus groups and interviews that the book A Project Guide To UX Design by Russ Unger does. However, Communicating Design exceeds many other books in its elaboration on the personas, wireframes, site maps, flow carts, etc.--the actual deliverables. Although the book doesn't delve into how to create the deliverables in different software programs (it only mentions a few of the usable programs like Illustrator and Microsoft Visio, for instance), one can go to Lynda.com for a month-to-month membership and access tutorials on these components. Communicating Design shows, instead, how to create the different deliverables, how to conduct oneself in business presentations of the deliverables, and how to format them into impressive reports. It is also important to note that Dan Brown's second edition felt more cumbersome at first, due to its wide size, but after spending time with the interior of the book, the read was quite pleasant. The pages were glossed with lots of white space and friendly diagrams. Dan Brown's book proved essential in helping me prepare for the initial design set-up of a Website, and I would argue that the steps he provides in his book are almost indispensable to making an excellent site. A good companion to this book for web developers, particularly, might be Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets, which requires some background knowledge in Javascript and provides Search Engine (i.e., Google) Optimization strategies--a fundamental consideration when starting a site.
Review: This book is great. - Lots to take in. I liked that they stressed that this is more a process for discovering/understanding your content than a goal of creating charts and graphs and Excel files... the goal isnt to make all this documentation, it's to do what works for you in order to HELP you make better decisions, so you can pick and choose which strategies work for you. That's a really valuable lesson to learn. Haven't even finished the book yet but really enjoying it.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #372,055 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #68 in Technical Writing Reference (Books) #133 in Web Design (Books) #1,085 in Computer Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 64 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent for Deliverables: Personas, flowcharts, wireframes, etc.
*by S***C on December 31, 2012*

Communicating Design Second Edition by Dan M. Brown is a delightful read--one especially suited for those taking Web programming courses or wanting to learn the inside strategies on Web site design/programming preparation. The book starts off by covering the fundamentals of wireframes, personas, site maps, concept models, and flowcharts. These components of the book are not only technical in a how-to format, but also practical in a business sense. In fact, Dan Brown makes a point of stressing how to negotiate these "deliverables" in business meetings, in essence preparing the reader for a career in design strategies. The second part of the book not only emphasizes how to format the products (i.e., wireframes, personas, etc) into professional deliverables through providing structure for the reports, but also delves into competitive reviews, usability plans, and usability reports. Of most interest to me was the competitive review, as it helped establish the framework (including site map) of a site I'm about to build. One easily overlooked shortcoming of the book is that it doesn't spend the time on research strategies, such as focus groups and interviews that the book A Project Guide To UX Design by Russ Unger does. However, Communicating Design exceeds many other books in its elaboration on the personas, wireframes, site maps, flow carts, etc.--the actual deliverables. Although the book doesn't delve into how to create the deliverables in different software programs (it only mentions a few of the usable programs like Illustrator and Microsoft Visio, for instance), one can go to Lynda.com for a month-to-month membership and access tutorials on these components. Communicating Design shows, instead, how to create the different deliverables, how to conduct oneself in business presentations of the deliverables, and how to format them into impressive reports. It is also important to note that Dan Brown's second edition felt more cumbersome at first, due to its wide size, but after spending time with the interior of the book, the read was quite pleasant. The pages were glossed with lots of white space and friendly diagrams. Dan Brown's book proved essential in helping me prepare for the initial design set-up of a Website, and I would argue that the steps he provides in his book are almost indispensable to making an excellent site. A good companion to this book for web developers, particularly, might be Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets, which requires some background knowledge in Javascript and provides Search Engine (i.e., Google) Optimization strategies--a fundamental consideration when starting a site.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is great.
*by J***S on April 5, 2014*

Lots to take in. I liked that they stressed that this is more a process for discovering/understanding your content than a goal of creating charts and graphs and Excel files... the goal isnt to make all this documentation, it's to do what works for you in order to HELP you make better decisions, so you can pick and choose which strategies work for you. That's a really valuable lesson to learn. Haven't even finished the book yet but really enjoying it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Creative Manager
*by C***B on April 17, 2012*

This book was a great resource in giving best practices of how to display complicated UX ideas and design. The cherry on top was that each design section also comes with suggestions on how to run a client through a meeting using the tools referenced.

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