Discussion Archive: March 2006

Wordsmithing : Can't we all just get along?

The Nipple: Innate or Intuitive?

Hmmm... Could we agree that the two terms are very close in meaning?

The Latin root of "innate" indicates that "you're born with it" and that it
is not "derived from experience"*

The Latin root of "intuition" indicates that "you look at it and know it";
i.e.

Functional Specs (long and getting longer)[signed]

>> First on consequences: If ecommerce website were to fail me by $20 I
>>might not be killed, but their business would suffer by more than $20.

Hear, hear.
Both E-Trade and McAfee lost me as a client/potential client in the past
week for reasons sparked by issues on their sites and I am sure the effects
were far more widespread.

Now on to the cause, the digital/web domain is the only endeavour in which
people prototype using the "real" thing. To all others a prototype is just
that, a model you construct in order to study the problem.

Functional Specs (long and getting longer) [signed]

Greetings!

There has always been a sense about web development that everything must be
new and other disciplines have nothing to add to what we are doing.
Particularly since web development has been done in a hurry. Remember that
old adage that Internet time was like dog years...

My view of the FS is that of a blueprint: you would never invest the
millions of dollars needed to build a bridge or a building without knowing
exactly what was required. Web development, interaction, digital, rich media
(whatever it is we do) design has to be done to the same or similar
standard.

Functional Specification Documents [signed]

> I was just wondering if any of your produce FSDs for projects? And if
> so, what do they look like and how detailed do they get? We are in a big
> debate in my company about the whole FSD design
> process/documentation/detail level. Is there any standards out there for
> me to lean on?
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> Thanks!
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> Cindi -
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Not much in the way of standards.