Also, if each individual project has its own designer, these designers natively start to organize directories in own ways at the bottom level. Because of this, middle- and bottom levels in each form-factor become more and more unfamiliar to each other over time. Many projects have a separate start for each form-factor. But I witnessed those who used such a system faces more impactive troubles rather than help. So the catalog system is opened by folders named Android, iOS, Web and so on. I saw practices wherein the top level is arranged via form-factors. This way a designer gets access only to resources and intellectual property you want to share and nothing more. You may give restricted access to the specific folder (project or feature) to a freelance designer. Such a system allows working safely with freelancers on the top level. For product companies holding an in-house design team, this is the name of the individual parts of their digital products. For agencies and freelancers, this is the projects themselves. My practice has shown that the best way to organize the catalog at the top level is to use projects names or features names. Worst of all, I met those who prefer senseless, spontaneous workflow accessible only to their understanding. But after several months, when the project grows, faced the same problems as I mentioned above. Such people do their work fast at the first stages of a project’s life. I witnessed those who decided to use a very ill-conceived system even when they know how to do it correctly. And it cost them several months to re-group and synchronize everything when it all gone too far. I faced companies who build a system that was wrong because of their project specification. But I faced many people who decided not to make a system at the first stages of work processes (startups or novice/junior designers usually). Moreover, it looks easy to think out something useful. It seems like a simple rule - to have a smart folder system. Every company, design team or a designer itself sooner or later faces a challenge when it is impossible to quickly find an old-version source layout, understand a file’s relevance or find project-related resources. There is an evil problem with all digital products design processes. A systematic approach for managing project folder structures
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