{"id":39,"date":"2007-04-01T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/archives\/39"},"modified":"2007-12-31T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T06:01:27","slug":"ui-spec-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"UI Spec Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the spec writing process starts to gather steam, routine check-ins and reviews need to occur to ensure accuracy, and more importantly, capture any missed issues or conflicts\/confusions with other members of cross-disciplinary team, particuarly QA or Development.<\/p>\n<p>The reviews are not a time to go through word by word every single line or what&#8217;s written, nor is it a time for &#8220;committee writing&#8221;&#8211;simply unproductive! Instead, the weekly reviews should be a time to identify major issues that cropped up during the writing, gaps\/deltas, and potential conflicts with what&#8217;s been prototyped vs. developed or tested. High level issues should be surfaced and debated, not tactical tweaks.<\/p>\n<p>Before the weekly reviews, the spec writer should be in constant touch with the designers and QA, having a tight feedback loop on getting inputs, making sure changes to the design are communicated, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the spec writing process starts to gather steam, routine check-ins and reviews need to occur to ensure accuracy, and more importantly, capture any missed issues or conflicts\/confusions with other members of cross-disciplinary team, particuarly QA or Development. The reviews are not a time to go through word by word every single line or what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UI Spec Reviews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}