Design Specifications Examples
Examples: Magazine, a Video, and a Website
No Design Specification Success Criteria
1 The magazine should use clear legible font The magazine should apply readable and
writing to make it easier for the users to read professional font types such as Arial and
through the content of the magazine without Verdana and should be of font size 12. The
struggling or experiencing eye strain. titles must apply a larger font size of around
24 and use different colors for each page for
ease in readability and also to enhance the
aesthetics of the magazine.
2 The video should have a short introduction The introduction should include the name of
about the Kikuyu culture to inform the the culture, the population, the location, or
target audience about the culture under the country the culture is practiced. The
consideration in the video. introduction must not be more than 30
seconds long as it gives a brief overview of the
video.
3 The video must have a kikuyu cultural song The Kikuyu cultural song must display lyrics
playing in the background to enable the for the target audience to understand the
target audience to familiarize themselves message when necessary and must play
with the Kikuyu culture. silently in the background so as not to
interfere with the narrated message in the
video.
4 The website must have a clearly visible logo The logo should be located at the top left of
depicting the client’s business to assist in the page and should be besides the navigation
proper and easier identification of the bar. The logo should portray
information/aspects about the client’s
client’s business from those of its
business and be in red and blue colors.
competitors.
5 The website should have a fully functional The navigation bar should be located at the
navigation bar for ease of navigation by the top of the website and should be in blue color
users through the different pages of the and should assist the users to navigate across
website and identification of the different the different web pages of the website. The
parts of the website. navigation bar should adjust to fit with
different devices being used such as
computers, phones, and others.
6 The website must have pictures of the The pictures of the client’s business should be
client’s business and its street location to located at the home page of the business and
properly represent the client’s business and should include pictures of the building of the
for easier location of the client’s business by business and the products offered with the
its customers. street location indicated.
Example: Database
No Design Specification Success Criteria
1 The database should have at least 3 tables The tables should include the students, the
to effectively capture all the diverse data teachers and the parents’ table. The tables
contained in the school environment. should also capture various data types such as
date, short text, long text, numbers etc.
2 The database should generate different The queries should include various aspects of
queries to assist the school to be able to the tables such as the dates, names, student
query the database to obtain different IDs, Teacher IDs, classes, and many others.
information about the teachers, the
students, and the parents.
Example: Game Product
No Design Specification Success Criteria
1 The game should be less than 3 MB in size to The game's ideal size should be 1-2 MB, but the
assist in easier installation in the computer size should allow for easier installation of the
and to avoid taking much space or causing updates without the size going beyond 3 MB.
the computer to lag.
2 The game should be played by at least two The game should permit two or more players to
players (Multiplayer game) to make the play the game simultaneously. The game should
game interesting, engaging and fun for the not also lag at all when two or more players are
users that are interested in exploring the playing the game and should provide a
game. mechanism that allows two or more players to
control the game using the computer keyboard.
3 The game should have at least 3 levels that The 3 levels of the game should have increasing
will advance in complexity to make the game complexity and should have different activities
interesting and fun for the players to play as that are fun to allow the users to have fun and
they move from one level to another. feel the difference between the different levels.
The levels should also have different background
sounds and different scores to notify the players
of the change of the levels.
