[Sigia-l] Web browser based diagramming

[Donna M. Fritzsche]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:28:00 +0000, Stewart Dean wrote
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> <snipped>
>  To my view the trick 
> is in the detail. I personaly have seen many appliations that get 
> near but ultimately fail on the task I have in mind.  The 
> application I have in mind is born out of hours of swearing at Visio 
> and Omnigraffle  (after hours of use both I now view as remarkably 
> similair in their abilities and failings - both have major problems 
> with their user interface in different ways).   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.
> 
The tool I desribed was a working system  - that was delivered 
internationally within a major corporation - it was used for training that 
specific corporation's consultants.  I did use the term simulation - that is 
because it was simulation-driven learning.  e.g. Try something out within 
the simulated environment, see if it works, if it works well, keep on going, 
if it didn't work well, back up and try again... (I am simplifying a great 
deal...  but hopefully you get the idea!).

The tool I described was for the "e-learning authors", a role related to the 
IA role.  The system that was delivered to the users (students) was a 
totally different system that took input from the authors in terms of XML-
like data structures, tagged video, and tagged content.

- Donna