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Client-Centric Documents
Documentation is produced for a number of reasons during the lifetime of a project. We use different documents to communicate the design vision and interaction to designers, developers and to our clients. We find value in documenting a project over simply diving in and programming, designing, writing, etc.
On "Worse is Better"
Back in the day, there was a concept popular among Unix-types, called Worse is Better. The idea, basically, is that you start with solutions that are close to perfect, but fairly simple. Then you layer on additional technology to take care of the remaining portions. Plan on reuse rather than everyone going through your gateway. This is in direct opposition to systems that try to be all things to all people all the time.