[Sigia-l] Web browser based diagramming

[Stewart Dean]

>From: Listera <listera at rcn.com>
>To: SIGIA-L <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Web browser based diagramming
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:05:53 -0500
>
>Stewart Dean:
>
> > I'm after a true IA tool - one where I can draw a site / process / 
>application
> > and then have that form part of the process leading to a final site 
>being
> > built - not just prototype or simulation.
>
>Why does that make it a "true IA tool"?
>
>After all, that's precisely what Microsoft says its goal is with the
>Expression suite...and they don't call it the "true IA tool".

The Expression tool set is not an IA toolset - it's a web design toolset. 
They use the term user experience a lot but ultimately it's still the same 
story as with existing tools. There are back end developement tools, front 
end developement tools but no experience structure tools. An experience 
structure could be created to work with diffrent back end systems and with 
different user interfaces so,  in my view, my vision of an IA tool is 
independent to both at it's core.

I covered the Microsoft tools elsewhere, they're all miles away from the IA 
problem in my view and miss what I see as the core of user expience, the 
strucutre and flow.

Stewart Dean