
👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
Upon archiving stuff in my old hard drive, I encountered my equally old (circa 2004) template of Project Folder. Over those years in designing websites, I’ve personally developed a system for organizing project files.
This particular Project Folder was structured as such:
Fast forward to 2008 – I was at the Chikka office for a Senior UI Designer interview. One of the questions I was asked was how I organized my design and development files or if I did. I proudly discussed Project Folder v1.0 since I developed it myself.
When I joined the team at Chikka, I learned to use a similar system (which was used by developers) and from what I remember, it was patterned after repositories.
This approach was way better and more appropriate in a web development setting so I also adapted it to my freelance work.
Shortly after, mobile became a “thing”. Suddenly, from a couple of platforms, Pandora’s box was wide open. Our team needed to adapt – first, in the file management level.
The significant change I made was simply an addition of another folder to categorize the platform type the project fell under. For example:
For you designers and developers out there, do you have a similar approach? How does your file management system vary from project to project?