mediawiki (mediawiki.org). also open source - runs wikipedia. obviously very scalable. :-) I have also used pmwiki, because I needed password protection, but I ended up happily back with mediawiki after some issue.
as far as commercial wikis, i have heard good things about jira, which adobe is apparently using. here are a gazillion others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software I have plenty of examples, but nothing online at the moment. I'll see if I can dig something up that wouldn't be proprietary information (I think I may be hard pressed to do this, but I'll poke around). Michael On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have been experimenting using dokuwiki, an opensource wiki. But > requieres an aditional effort of customizing the template for the > wiki. > > Which wiki do you use to use? Do you have any online examples of > documenting Interaction design using wiki? > > Jorge Marquez > Usability consultant at everis > > > Enviado desde mi BlackBerry® de Vodafone > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Nick Iozzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:03:56 > To:"Michael Tuminello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"IxDA list" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Documenting interaction design > specification > > > We have also begun to experiment with a wiki for the reasons you > stated. > > For drawings we have used Visio. Because Visio has such > customization and automation ability, it has been the best so far. > If you dig in and create some custom templates and stencils, then > you can really move fast. > > As an aside, I just figured out how to create glue points for all > objects in the stencils. All of the widgets have one. This allows > me to glue the labels to the form elements and the form elements to > each other. When you building the UI everything snaps into place > with perfect and even spacing. > > We have been using an object oriented approach to our wireframes > and specs (a description of which will be out on our blog after the > holidays). But this approach allows you to easily deal with > complexity. > > We looked at some of the prototyping and specing tools out (Axure, > iRise, ProcessView Composer), but have not found any that can > handle a great deal of complexity. > > For example, one of our clients has a page within the booking > process that is made up of 12 modules. Not all modules will always > be displayed, some will be displayed based on the role you play. > The form they can take on can be different based on your role, > actions you did on a prior page, actions you have taken during a > prior session, or actions you are taking on that page now. When you > do the math, you end up with over 14,000,000 possible states to > that page. I have not found any of the prototyping or specing > tools that can handle this. > > Nick Iozzo > Principal User Experience Architect > > tandemseven > > 847.452.7442 mobile > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.tandemseven.com/ > > > > > From: Michael Tuminello > Sent: Fri 12/28/2007 8:03 AM > To: IxDA list > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Documenting interaction design > specification > > > I like wiki. Wiki and mostly Fireworks, because it does both vector > and bitmap, and exports to a number of formats (and the frames and > pages are very handy for working with graphic screens that change > only partially - think states of an app, or webpages). For diagrams > I sometimes use Keynote or Omni Graffle. I will also occasionally do > an animated demo in flash. > > some of the things I like about using a wiki: > > versioning - mediawiki saves all the old versions so I can rollback > or just diff against an old version > easily accessible to everyone > only one copy of the doc, and the most current one is always in the > same place > > there are a number of things that are not great (must upload images > rather than cut and paste, restricting access can be a pain...) but > overall I am a wiki-holic. > > I also find that thinking in either an outline format or a numbered > list format (common wiki formats, at least on mediawiki) is > surprisingly helpful. specifications are not the kind of thing that > you want to make more verbose than necessary. > > HTH - > > MT > > > On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Sachendra Yadav wrote: > >> What tools do you use for documenting interaction design >> specification. >> >> I create the interaction model for screens and the flow diagrams and >> in MS Visio and import them in MS Word where the interaction model >> and >> flows are described in detail. >> >> Is there a better, more efficient way to do this? >> >> Cheers >> Sachendra >> ________________________________________________________________ >> *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* >> February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA >> Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... 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