So when I was sort of 18 or some shit and spent most of my time enduring crush on this vietnamese dude who was in some of my classes and was seriously the smartest guy I believed in the top 10 of people our age then- my comp sci professor used to emphasise the need for making and working from clear (and well-designed) design documents. Ok so through my memories of basically swooning everytime I ran into Thurston (yes his real name) I vaguely recall my Prof. Richard Buckland’s criteria for a good design document:
It should be inspiring
It should be forward-looking
It should have a realistic amount of technical information
It should be a work in itself
It should be legible for non-coders
It should give criteria for success
Thats the beginning of my lingquest to get one of these done!