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 ...

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 ...

This is the seventh article in a series about my career experiences in the PCB design industry. The previous articles discuss my lessons learned as a designer, running a service bureau, and my initial ...

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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 ...