26 July 2013

Suggested standard for naming files of most types of design artifacts.

This suggested standard aims to:

• provide a preview of the file’s info thru the file name
• organize the versioning system of files

<project-name>_<project-type>_<artifact-type>_<designer-name>_<date>_<version>.<file-extension>

Example:

• Project: Chikka blog
• Type: website
• Artifact: Mock-up
• Designer: Dys
• Date: July 26, 2013
• Version: first
• App: Photoshop
• Exported image: PNG

Usage:

• chikka-blog_web_mu_dys_20130726_1a.psd
• chikka-blog_web_mu_dys_20130726_1a.png

Pointers:

• small caps only
• no spaces
• use dash ( – ) for separator within a segment
• use underscore ( _ ) for separator between segments

Project types:

• Website (desktop) – web
• Website (mobile) – web-m
• Android smartphone app – and
• Android tablet app – and-t
• iPhone app – ipn
• iPad app – ipd

Artifact types:

• Sketch – sk
• Wireframe – wf
• Mock-up – mu

Designer (free to change)

• Dys – dys
• Mike – mik
• Tess – tess
• Desiree – des

Date format: <YYYY><MM><DD>

Version format: <number><letter>

• always start at “1a”
• if only one person is designing two studies, name it “1a”, “2a”
• after exporting the design and a revision must be done, increment the letter, e.g., from “1a” to “1b” and so on