Visual Asset Delivery

How do you or your company require designers to deliver their assets to coders? Do they deliver a PSD? A series of 24-bit PNGs?

If you are a coder, what would you include in a best-practice guideline to designers? If you are a designer, what questions would you like to see answered in such a document?

Here are some ideas:

• Generally:
  • include designs for mouse-over and mouse-down states for all buttons and other interactive elements, as well as the normal state.
  • for toggle buttons, this can also include different states for both selected and unselected modes, for开发者_如何转开发 6 states total: normal, over, down.
  • in drop-downs, lists, etc, please design a selected and unselected state for each item, if appropriate, especially where the content varies.
  • Flash is strictly an sRGB colorspace. If creating assets for Flash, make sure that your deliverables look how you expect it in sRGB.
• If delivering assets as a PSD, please:
  • label all layers clearly.
  • make sure that the dimensions of your document exactly match the dimensions of the application

What else would you include in a Visual Asset Delivery Best Practices document?

When delivery is in the form of a PSD, I'm a huge fan of Layer Comps. They save me the trouble of having to click through the layer's palette to see how the comp should look at various states.