Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation

Chapter 3. Vary

	“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (loosely translated as “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”)
	--Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

One thing we can be sure about is that nearly everything we design online needs to adapt to change. While a few components may end up having a static, fixed state, so many more require a designer to identify, visualize, and communicate a design’s range and flexibility.

This chapter focuses on how to communicate component variation by doing the following:

• Documenting different component instances

• Understanding and communicating states

• Choosing the right techniques to display visualizations

• Composing precise and effective descriptions

• Thinking about how to best combine visualizations and ...