You can always try Jesse James Garrett's Visual Vocabulary:
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/. I think that you would use the user
decision diamond, but maybe you can find more info/validation here.
Good luck!
Lis
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my 2c what I would do in this situation:
The user sees one screen, hence there is one rectangular box for the
screen. After that, there is a diamond that branches according to the
decision that user made. Nobody says there can only be 2 outcomes. I
have done diamonds with 4 or 5 outcomes, and the
Thanks for the great explanation! This is quite helpful!
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I would use the decision diamond as this is what is traditionally used
in flowcharts to represent a decision needing to be made, in this case,
probably what is the user doing to create which state in the system. If
there is a generic decision, such as "What happens?" then have five
different paths
What you're trying to chart is a switch statement.
It can be done with multiple decision nodes. Here is an example...
http://www.gailer-net.de/tutorials/java/Notes/chap43/ch43_8.html
And there is more info here on charting different decision
statements...
http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/eet/courses
On Mike's note: I have found that a system's behavior can be modeled
in two ways. For engineers, there is the UML Activity Diagram, which
is what the first link refers to. And then there is Garrett's
Information Architecture/Navigation Map/UI flow diagram. They look
deceptively similar because they
I'm with Mike. Additionally, if your docs are being reviewed by
engineers, you'll be better off sticking to traditional/logical
treatments of decision nodes (they'll appreciate it/won't make fun of
the IA).
-Anne
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Mike Myles wrote:
> What you're trying to chart is
I think perhaps the conditional branch (triangle) is more appropriate,
however the trick is to look at what the outcome of a step is.
Basically: Does choosing any of the 5 options returns the same page?
Or does it return one of 5 possible pages depending on the choice?
For example:
If the outco
