Comments on: The dreaded functional spec… http://www.happyinwater.com/life/archives/2005/10/08/the-dreaded-functional-spec/ It's quieter down here Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.happyinwater.com/life/archives/2005/10/08/the-dreaded-functional-spec/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Joe Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:22:54 +0000 http://www.happyinwater.com/life/?p=87#comment-75 What these guys seem to be thinking of as a "functional spec" wouldn't even have been used as toilet paper at Kintana or Mercury. If I had written only paragraphs of text and tried to pass if off as a "spec" I would not only have been berated in public and had it, literally, thrown back in my face but probably shot and fired too. And if I'm the designer and I wrote it then how are "the designers not designing"? What these guys seem to be thinking of as a “functional spec” wouldn’t even have been used as toilet paper at Kintana or Mercury. If I had written only paragraphs of text and tried to pass if off as a “spec” I would not only have been berated in public and had it, literally, thrown back in my face but probably shot and fired too.

And if I’m the designer and I wrote it then how are “the designers not designing”?

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