Design Practice

The paper around the drawing — for designers who already have the tools to draw in.

Four projects, each running in the order the work actually happens: brief, research plan, interview guide, four research sessions, synthesis, a journey map, flows, eight-frame idea sheets, drawing sheets with an annotation rail, critique, heuristic evaluation and accessibility checks. Plus a decision log and a reference section. 116 pages, all linked.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

· The heuristic evaluation prints the ten heuristics down the page and the 0–4 severity scale in full, with its labels — a rating whose labels are missing is a number people argue about

· Three evaluator columns and a mean, because the authors of that scale say one evaluator's rating is not reliable. Nothing else on sale acts on that

· The session sheet runs the moderator's sequence down the rail in the order people get wrong: consent before background, tasks one at a time and in writing, observers' questions in the last five minutes

· A seven-point ring after every task, circled straight afterwards — asked at the end of the session, it measures the session. Both ends are labelled, because seven bare circles are a scale whose direction you have to guess

· A flow page with the arrows drawn — rounded terminators, square steps, and a diamond at every branch with two lines to label the ways out. Most flow templates are a grid of numbered boxes and no arrows at all

· A journey map with phases across the top and lanes down the side, and three levels to plot the feeling against so the marks join into a line

· Brief, research plan and interview guide: the three sheets a project starts with. Each field is a question with a wrong answer, which is what stops a brief becoming a mission statement

· The three minimum target sizes side by side: 24 CSS px, 44 pt, 48 dp. Each is correct in its own frame and a designer is asked for all three in the same week

· Contrast ratios quoted with their success criterion, so you can argue from the number instead of asserting it

· Frames are rectangles at the right proportion labelled by point size — not anyone's handset, and no invented safe-area values, because those vary by platform and by year. Beside each one is a numbered annotation rail, which is the thing the free sketchbooks leave out

· A critique that opens with what the screen has to do and closes with the one question you want answered

· No branding inside. You are buying paper, not an advert.