[Sigia-l] tenets, principles, standards, etc ...

[Eric Scheid]

On 25/12/03 8:57 AM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

>> Another example of an IA "standard" would be JJG's visual vocabulary. It
>> is a stencil set for use for making flowcharts with for both content
>> based and application based situations. Very cool actually. It could be
>> standardized in an organization so that there is ONE method for doing
>> flow charting and so that the key for a flowchart can be taught once
>> instead of constantly re-invented.
> 
> It's way too complicated for non-geeks. For non-techie consumers like
> marketing, management, business-line people, etc., a much more simplified
> version is needed. I actually devised one with only four branching symbols
> that covers something like 85% of the territory. It's called SimpleFLOW. I
> never released it, I still think it should get even simpler.

Personally, I like the tube-map flow diagrams.

    http://www.kaywebs.co.uk/processmappingbytube.pdf

Although admittedly, it's more suited to process flow than site organisation
maps.

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