The wiki — decisions that outlive the meeting

Specifications, finishes schedules and the reasoning behind them, written where the next person will look.

In this lesson

What the wiki is

This is the wiki. It is where the studio writes down the things everyone agrees to do the same way, so a decision made in one meeting is still standing six months later.

The handbook

The studio handbook lives here — the standards the whole team follows, from how a material gets approved to how a site photo is taken.

Open any page and it reads like a short document, not a chat. That is the point: it is written to be found later, by someone who was not in the room.

Like the material-approval process — written down once, and reused on every job after. The next designer does not have to ring Salma to ask how it works.

Starting a new space

For the coastal projects, Salma starts a new space. A space is just a folder for one subject, so everything about the seaside builds sits together.

She names it, gives it a line of description, and saves. The space now sits beside the handbook, ready to be filled.

Its first page

Then she adds its first page — the handover checklist for San Stefano. A page has a title and a body, and that is all it needs to be.

Saving it publishes the page to the team. Nothing is sent by email; the next person who looks in the space simply sees it.

The habit that matters

One habit worth building: the moment a decision is repeated twice, write it down here. A standard that lives in one head is a standard that leaves with that person.

What just happened

  1. What the wiki is

    This is the wiki. It is where the studio writes down the things everyone agrees to do the same way, so a decision made in one meeting is still standing six months later.

  2. The handbook

    The studio handbook lives here — the standards the whole team follows, from how a material gets approved to how a site photo is taken.

  3. Starting a new space

    For the coastal projects, Salma starts a new space. A space is just a folder for one subject, so everything about the seaside builds sits together.

  4. Its first page

    Then she adds its first page — the handover checklist for San Stefano. A page has a title and a body, and that is all it needs to be.

  5. The habit that matters

    One habit worth building: the moment a decision is repeated twice, write it down here. A standard that lives in one head is a standard that leaves with that person.

Open the wiki Opens Taskity in your own project.

Next: Getting the client to approve a design →

Put it into practice.

Boards, approvals, snags and client sign-offs — one platform your team will actually use.

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