[Sigia-l] Web browser based diagramming

[Stewart Dean]

>From: Listera <listera at rcn.com>

>
>Stewart Dean:
>
> > Validation of an IA, as the article points out, is best done using 
>prototyping
> > or even actual use.
>
>But, God forbid, we should heed that advice in *this* thread and begin to
>learn about tools that actually allow you do it. But that would be XUX,
>right?

Prototyping is part of a standard UCD approach, although it doesnt happen as 
much as it does at it's time consuming.  At the moment there are tools you 
can build a prototype in, i've done so using flash and dreamweaver in the 
past, but it's a very long winded process and the prototype is seperate to 
the final result. I consider it should be generated in the same way as the 
final project and - from structure out.

I'm saying that get the struture tool right and protoyping becomes much much 
less time consuming and be part of the same stream as the final project, not 
a seperate branch. This is a hypothesis at the moment and one that I would 
need to test.

Stew Dean