Improve · Aesthetary Original

Write the case study and the decision log

You'll be able to close a project with testable decision-log entries and a one-page case study where every number has a source.

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Every number, found in its source.

One decision-log entry
12026-10-05 · AllWeb redesign: one grade, not forty edits
2Tried: picking the best photos and editing them one by one.
3Problem: too many to touch by hand, shot across eight years.
4Learned: one grading script made the archive read as one institution.
5Rule I'm testing: imagery is a system. One grade for every photo.

Write the case study

  1. Say it was speculative
  2. The brief in a line
  3. Three decisions, what changed
  4. Every number: tool and date

Write down what you'd keep doing, and give every number in the story its source.

Transcript

The project isn't finished until you've written down what you'd keep doing. Two short documents close it: the decision log, and the case study.

Each decision-log entry has four parts. What you tried. The problem you hit. What you learned. And the rule you're now testing. This one is from the redesign: one grade for every photo, not forty hand edits. Write the rule as a test, so the next project can prove it wrong. Here's a second: one display size, measured in the tightest frame. Write three to five while you still remember why.

Then the case study, on one page. Say first that it was speculative. The brief in a line, then three decisions and what each changed. Then before and after, each number with its tool and date. These two came from different tools, so the page says so. Write it as improvements, so AllWeb would be glad to read it.

Before anyone reads it, find every number in its source. The old page's weight, in the audit from the fifth of October. The redesign's, in the check from the first of November. And the nineteen demo links, in the link check.

Write down what you'd keep doing, and give every number in the story its source.