[Sigia-l] Elements of Documentation

[Donna Marie Fritzsche]

Personaly,  I would continue with the creation of site maps and at 
least one round of wireframes because the artifacts mentioned serve 
as a form of communication by which collaboration is facilitated and 
ultimate agreement is established.  Additionally, the process of 
creating the artifacts facilitates the IA's processing of information 
and leads to refinements that might not take place if one went 
straight from a set of ideas to code.  The functional prototype can 
also facilitate the above in its own unique manner - in addition to 
offering a new degree of usability testing, but I do not think it 
should wholly replace them.

The working prototype does not give me the same information as the 
site map does for instance.
The working prototype does not invite group interaction and 
collaboration in the same way that a wireframe does.

This was the topic of one of the Chicago IA Learning Hours and we saw 
some excellent examples of both paper and functional prototypes - the 
session illuminated the benefits of each.

Donna



At 7:30 PM -0400 6/30/02, Listera wrote:
>"christina wodtke" wrote:
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>>  It is much as I thought...
>
>If you could create functional prototypes in roughly the same timeframe
>would you bother with any of the other stuff?
>
>Best,
>
>Ziya
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