Recently, Doug Brashear (a user experience designer at a client site that has adopted EightShapes Unify) asked the Interaction Design community about their reactions and implementations of the EightShapes Unify framework. Since my responses may be valuable to the entire community (rather than limiting the response just to our shared client stakeholders), here’s a stab [...]

Deliverables
Templates

Switch deliverable copy template to InCopy CS3 template file (.inct), with fully synced paragraph and character styles of the deliverable InDesign templates
Expanded width of document title text area on the cover page of the tabloid-landscape deliverable template

Grids

Increased gutter size from 10pt to 16pt for four and six column grids

Paragraph Styles

Changed default deliverable paragraph style from [...]

Here at EightShapes, we’ll use prototypes for internal experience demonstrations and summative research on potential design solutions via usability testing. When we create wireframes modularly separate from deliverables, that affords us opportunities to dynamically reuse those low-fidelity screen designs across a range of context simultaneously: an early wireframe review, a usability test plan, and even [...]

So, the big opposition to the black bar at the top seemed to be our inability to be environmentally conscious and minimize toner output and costs.
Well, it turns out that InDesign enables you to include content in a PDF that doesn’t end up printing on your printer. To achieve this, you have to turn the [...]

In about a week we’ll be giving away our documentation template system for creating deliverables and wireframes. In preparation for releasing it to whoever wants it, we’ve been polishing the system files and tidying up a lot of loose ends.
One thing that’s been a constant since creating v2 of our internal system back in 2007 [...]

The EightShapes Unify system is predicated on the belief that design should be reusable and separate from deliverable documents. The templates and libraries that come with the system are clearly broken into two (or more, if you do comps too) collections of assets in the /deliverables/ and /wireframes/ directory.
Per Figure 1, a user’s goal is [...]