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I agree - it depends on who the reviewers are, and (for me) how much change
is anticipated in the UI.
Since most of what I'm working on is either going to a reviewer who can see
the UI in his/her sleep, or is being emailed to a reviewer who wants the
smallest file possible, I've developed the working method of referencing the
images early on, rather than taking the pictures at that stage.
Obviously, personal preferences are everything in this, but I prefer to take
quick-and-dirty screencaps and insert them without any processing during
the development phase, then recapture and polish as things firm up. Very
seldom are the developers I work with the only reviewers (I work with
products
that also get frequent scrubbings by EH&S and regulatory compliance folk),
and nondevs find it easier when the pics are there. And I regard every
return
to the app for new screencaps as yet another opportunity to walk through the
procedures I'm writing to look for changes the developers may have forgotten
to let me know about.
Gene Kim-Eng
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