[IxDA Discuss] Site map, reasoning and how to present it.

2009-11-15 Thread George
This is my first post here, long time lurker, first time active. I am facing a dilemma. After presenting the deliverable for a UX study of a website, my boss asked me to VISUALLY represent the reasoning behind the sitemap structure. The site map is divided into parts, each part explaining why

[IxDA Discuss] Representing visually the reasoning behind the sitemap.

2009-11-15 Thread George
I was asked to represent VISUALLY the reasoning behind the sitemap. There is a whole documentation about the full UX study, but the client does not want to read TEXT, he wants to see a VISUAL representation of the reasoning of the sitemap. How is that possible? I am totally lost and clueless and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Representing visually the reasoning behind the sitemap.

2009-11-15 Thread Weston Thompson
This might be a good time to use a storyboard or comic representation of key use scenarios. Those can embody all of the UX research/rationale and also how that translates into pathways in the site. You could also try site path diagramming (see Wodtke p. 248 or this PDF

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site map, reasoning and how to present it.

2009-11-15 Thread Manuel Pineault
Just a quick post to this, I think most of the way information is structure comes out of cultural norms or mental models. If you went to a website, where are you most likely to find the address. If it were me, I would likely go to the contact section. So to answer your question, I think,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Process Books

2009-11-15 Thread j. eric townsend
Dan Zollman wrote: The CMU page seems to refer to design notebooks rather than deliverables. The others appear to have a strong focus on layout and graphic/information design, but they have the same types of content that I'd put in a design report. Process was a deliverable within class --

[IxDA Discuss] Design observation

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Petersen
Dashboards are for multiple interpretations of the same data source, not for multiple data sources interpreted the same way. Thoughts? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Representing visually the reasoning behind the sitemap.

2009-11-15 Thread Paul Bryan
Hi George, This request might be more straightforward than you think. Since you mentioned that you have a UX study that supports your decisions, there is presumably a rationale that has lead you to organize the site the way that you did in the site map. You didn't say what kind of system you

[IxDA Discuss] Essential disciplines for successful technology, what\'s your idea?

2009-11-15 Thread Arjan Haring
Hi there, Within my conference team we have been extensively discussing the disciplines needed in creating successful technology. After 2 years of pondering, we came up with a framework that includes Experience Design, Persuasive Technology and Analytics (Evidence Based Marketing). Further