Is It Out of Scope? — Web design
Is writing documentation for the client's dev team out of scope for a web design project?
Yes. Technical documentation for a dev team is a writing deliverable outside a design engagement's scope.
This comes up when a client's own developers are picking up the site after design handoff, and the client asks whoever designed it to also write the technical notes their team will work from.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Documentation aimed at a dev team — component naming, build structure, handoff notes — is a writing deliverable for a technical audience, not a design artifact.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — Technical documentation for a development team is outside a design engagement's deliverable list.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Design handoff notes for your dev team are a separate deliverable from the design files themselves — happy to scope a documentation pass if that'd help.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags dev-documentation requests outside_scope on design contracts, distinguishing design deliverables from technical writing for an engineering audience.