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over 1 year ago from Mahdi Farra
The Art of Design Spec'ing is a tool that helps us understand how our customers work and what they need, but it doesn't necessarily tell us what we should be building or how we should build it. I personally recommend https://masterbundles.com/templates/presentations/powerpoint/ecology/ source to use free templates. I have never used it before, but after seeing it in action, I am going to try it out on my next project.
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I've updated the article and added 3 examples for recent projects I worked on.
You're right that new tools like Figma reduces the need for some specs. However, a lot of the design details such as relative widths/heights can't be inspected automatically in these tools. You'll still need to spec those manually.
And I totally agree with you on contributing to the codebase, which is what I do when I have the time. However, most of the time it can be challenging to do that on top of my product design duties.
Thanks a lot for your comment and feedback, and for sharing your workflow as well. Very insightful.
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