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

2009-11-18 Thread George
Thank you guys! One of the clients said that they are not "too techy" and use laymen terms for them, as for the "visual reasoning", I solved it by showing them a few charts from the card sorting, their existing website and the new structure, it worked out fine. I am using comics style for the st

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

2009-11-16 Thread Mathew Sanders
I'm assuming that the audience for the presentation are not familiar with a standard site-map deliverable, and I'm guessing that they are not looking for a blow-by-blow account of the entire rationale you have chosen, but instead looking for some confidence in the decisions that you have made. May

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 are

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 http://www.boxesandarrows.co

[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 ha