Writers of standards—both for general structural design and, in particular, structural steel design—rolled out their 2010 versions this month, completed in time to be referenced in the upcoming 2012 ...

It has been called many things over the years – GDD, Design Bible, Game Overview Document. Regardless of title, they all describe one thing; the living design document for a video game. The GDD has ...

Power plants are designed to operate at their highest efficiency. Once a plant goes into operation, however, real life takes over and sometimes design outcomes are not regularly realized. Improving ...

I recently read James Sweatman from Jagex’s great article ‘Death of the game design document’ and this got me thinking about my experience of game design documents, and how I approach them. I agree ...

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 ...

Writers and editors face the constant challenge of creating documents that are accessible to all readers and easy for them to understand. Design choices play a critical role in this work. In this ...

A design document needs to be a stable reference and outline all parts of the software and how they will work. The document should give a fairly complete description while maintaining a high-level ...

You can create InDesign documents that have multiple layers, which is useful when you have many elements to work with. For example, an image of your company's building may appear in the background ...