It’s been pretty quiet around Nuketown for the last few weeks, but it’s not because I haven’t been working. It’s just that I have been working, but haven’t had much I could talk about yet. The big thing I’ve been working on is a scope document for Nuketown’s redesign.
The idea behind the scope document is to nail down exactly what it is I’m doing as part of the redesign. It’s not meant to be a soap-to-nuts document — I have to sleep some time — but I wanted to summarize my objectives, create some solid tasks to accomplish them, and then identify goals to see whether or not my plan worked.
It was worth the time it took to write it up — as I was working on the IA and analytics, I realized that I’d gone to far in thinking about how I would do what I wanted, with out identifying what it was I wanted to do. It’s an easy trap to fall into when you’re working on a hobby project like this, but it ends up costing you dearly when you get halfway through the project and realize it’s a muddled mess. I don’t have a lot of free time — and I seem to have less and less of it as life goes on — so I can’t afford to make those kinds of mistakes.
You can check out the finished document via Google Docs. Feel free to comment on it as a response to this post.