Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-06-02 Thread Alinta Thornton
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Erica
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Burak Delice
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Fred Beecher
Hi Oleg, On 5/30/08, Oleg Krupnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds like something I've been thinking about myself. Could you please > shed > more light on what your business requirements look like and how you trace > them to the UI elements? In my organization, we have (among other practi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Fred, Thanks for your elaborate and seemingly impartial answer about Axure. You make some good points. There's a couple of things by the way I'd like ask you about: Fred Beecher wrote: > >3. No way to trace business requirements to UI elements automatically. > If >you need to do this,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Fred Beecher
Hi Oleg, On 5/30/08, Oleg Krupnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a little wary of Axure though because it looks to be designed > primarily for prototyping, not for wireframing. I.e. its ideology is > to *implement* some functionality in the prototype rather than > *present & explain* it to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On May 30, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Oleg Krupnov wrote: Please explain what do you mean by patterns in this context. I mean patterns in the traditional sense (e.g. Yahoo! pattern library). Those common, repeatable, reusable components (or tiles) that are present across multiple screens. You creat

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Thanks Fred and Sam, I agree that Axure makes some real good points. In particular, it seems to handle wireframe complexity pretty well by its masters and dynamic panels. I am a little wary of Axure though because it looks to be designed primarily for prototyping, not for wireframing. I.e. its id

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Alok Jain
Guru, You could do it in three ways: 1. Just use diagrams to explain each state of drag and drop 2. Use flash or something like that to create an animation 3. Use javascript library like Scriptaculous/Yahoo UI - http://script.aculo.us/ - might seem a big deal initially, but its not so much.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread pauric
Oleg "3. A page includes a panel that is reused on different pages (i.e. as common info block) , or multiple times on the same page (e.g. item in a list) . How to show the reused panels best, avoiding copying/out-of-sync problems?" Omni has a master page feature that was designed for common layout

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Guru
Hello all The discussions and the comments IxDA gives me a great insight about IxDesign Now i am in a project which is similar to have the interface like iGoogle i.e, drag and drop feature... I have to build wireframes for this...How can i build wireframes for this project. Is there any tool av

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Thanks Todd, Please explain what do you mean by patterns in this context. Oleg. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/un

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Fred Beecher
To elaborate on how Axure can help with this... On 5/30/08, Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We've found it most effective to document each "panel" (we call them > components) separately. One page of your document can show different > versions/states. This is exactly how Axure handles

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
1. Patterns—using patterns will address items 1-3 in your list. Have the patterns first in your wireframe deck w/all their behavior notes and states. 2. Layers in InDesign (or other)—using layers for behavior notes will tackle #4. You can have notes on different layers for each audience.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Dan Brown
Oleg,You're not alone. More and more, we IxDs are dealing with situations like the one you describe. You're asking about two things: 1. How do make the document understandable given the complexity of the interface 2. How to manage the document given the complexity For #1: We've found it most ef

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-30 Thread Sam Woodman
Oleg, Not too sure what software you're using to do your wireframes, but I've designed and specified websites before with a similar sort of complexity using Axure. Axure allowed me to create wireframes with different panels in the page and different states for each panel. Axure has a great prototy

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-29 Thread Oleg Krupnov
And I've been thinking about the following solution: you draw both parent and child on the same wireframe, but in different layers, and then draw their notes, in another two layers. Then you switch the notes layers parent/child. In this way you can show both parent with preview of the child and the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Baty
Oleg, Not a plain grey box, but close to it - you should be able to strike a balance; all of that extra detail is contained in the separate representation. An actual object library can also be used if your wireframing supports them. Although I suspect no matter what software you utilise, synchroni

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-29 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Thanks Steve, Your answer is clear except that I don't quite understand how you technically avoid the problem that a child panel wireframe, contained in another drawing document, and copied to the parent wireframe in scenarios 1, 2, 3, can get out of sync when its source is modified? Do you mean (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Baty
Oleg, One thing I try to aim for in my documentation is that each page has the same density of information. So where I have a screen that includes a lot of complexity, I would look to break that complexity off into separate pages with references on the parent. That principle would apply to your sc

[IxDA Discuss] Managing Complexity of Wireframes

2008-05-29 Thread Oleg Krupnov
I'm looking for the current best practices of managing complexity of wireframes. What do you do in the following situations? 1. A page includes multiple panels, each of them is quite complex, with many details and notes. How to show all child panels and their notes without cluttering the parent