[Sigia-l] Elements of Documentation

[Donna Marie Fritzsche]

Oops -Excuse my spelling error, I just turned off the command that 
checks for typos on words starting with a capital - I knew it looked 
wrong, but my computer told me it was spelled correctly so I left it! 
eeks!   that  should be:

Personally, I would continue,,,

At 7:22 PM -0600 6/30/02, Donna Marie Fritzsche wrote:
>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
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>At 7:30 PM -0400 6/30/02, Listera wrote:
>>"christina wodtke" wrote:
>>
>>>  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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