People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

In today's enterprise landscape, software development often resembles a game of telephone. Business users articulate needs, and—after those needs go through layers of marketing, product and ...

I like to design the UI while writing the functional spec, this gives me a feel for what the user is going to have to do to complete a given task, and allows me to streamline the operation of the ...

For UX Designer Phillip Fernandez, collaborating with other departments at The Marketing Store hasn’t simply saved his team time — it’s led to the creation of better products. Relying on weekly ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

Many industrial applications in the automotive, automation, appliance, or medical sectors require power supplies that comply with functional safety standards. If the input voltage of such a power ...

The blueprint for the design of a system. With regard to a business information system, the specification provides the documentation for the database structure, the human and machine procedures, and ...