On Wireframing Tools for Microsoft Environments- June 28, 2007 Let's start with Boyd's IP Theft (oops, I mean Dictum) on Prototyping Tools: it is easier for someone who knows what they are doing to transfer a design concept on the back of a business card with a crayon than it is for someone without a clue to perform the same task with any other medium. In other words, the important part is transferring the design concept not look at the size of my tool. Sure, some tools make things easier. Some tools are more efficient than others.http://iaslash.org/node/7743 The Forces of User Experience- June 26, 2007 Richard Dalton has a new blog, and an excellent post called The Forces of User Experience in which he extends Jesse James Garrett's elements of user experience diagram to represent the effect of strategy on other planes. Good stuff.http://iaslash.org/node/7741 IAI Summary Question 1: To Content Inventory Or Not To Content Inventory- June 13, 2007 Inaugural Question of the Week for the IA Institute Member Mailing List Leisa Reichelt of Disambiguity.com posted earlier this month against content inventories, positing that they immerse you in the status quo of the content types and approaches. http:www.disambiguity.com200605why-you-shouldnt-start-ia-with-a-content-inventory Her position is interesting, but we'd like to hear from you about how you react to this post. How have content inventories affected your process and creativity on...http://iaslash.org/node/7717 Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text- June 6, 2007 Matt Hodgson has posted a summary of a presentation he did for our local IA group recently. This is a truly awesome piece of IA work - he analysed a large volume of unstructured text and designed a framework to rewrite it in a consistent, machine-readable, human-readable way: Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free texthttp://iaslash.org/node/7739 |