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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tanya Mohn reports on road safety, sustainable transport, and cycling. More than 70 works that integrate the concepts of ...

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) ...

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 ...

“Xilinx has worked with TUV SUD to ease the burden for system design teams that are faced with the selection of system components and design methodologies that meet established industry standards and ...