Book description
User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized,
blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution
for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs,
inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces.
Pattern libraries only go so far, suggesting general solutions to
common problems instead of offering concrete, specific design
treatments. At times, documented solutions turn into a costly mess
of unclear expectations, unrealistic goals, and abandoned
work.
Enter components, each of which represents a chunk of a Web page.
Designers can produce wireframes, mockups, or markup far more
efficiently reusing components based on an established design
system. Rather than limit innovation, components enable designers
to render solved design frameworks quickly and to focus on the
problem at hand, drastically improving the quality and rate of
production. In addition, teams develop a deeper baseline for
collaboration, a platform for governance, and a structure for
useful and predictable documentation.
This book defines the role of components and why they matter, maps
out how to organize and build a component library, discusses how to
use components in practice, and teaches a process for documenting
and maintaining components.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I. Component Design
- 1. Define
- 2. Divide
- 3. Vary
- 4. Combine
- 5. Reuse
- 6. Document
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II. Component Libraries
-
7. Appraise
- Why Create a Library?
- Are You Building the Right Library?
- Is Your User Experience Ready for a Library?
- Are You Ready for a Library?
- Is Your Design Team Ready for a Library?
- Is Your Organization Ready for a Library?
- Is Management Ready to Support a Library?
- So, Are You Really Ready to Build a Library?
- 8. Discover
- 9. Organize
- 10. Setup
- 11. Build
- 12. Administer
- 13. Guide
- 14. Adopt
- 15. Integrate
-
7. Appraise
Product information
- Title: Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2009
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: None
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