Why Visio wireframes are outmoded (Was [Sigia-l] NYU IAclassdescription link)

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> Sent: 11 July 2005 14:48
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> NYU IAclassdescription link)
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> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org on behalf of Anders Ramsay
> Sent: Sun 7/10/2005 1:35 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Why Visio wireframes are outmoded (Was [Sigia-l] NYU 
> IA classdescription link)
> 
> "Are there good tools for building wireframes in XHTML and 
> CSS?  There is one decent tool, Dreamweaver, but one still 
> needs to be smarter than the tool and understand what it 
> should be doing not what it does.
>  Every version of Dreamweaver gets much better.
>  
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>  
> I have been trying for a while to build a toolkit using 
> Dreamweaver to create prototypes using webstandards 
> development. The problem is that it is difficult to use a 
> WYSIWYG environment to create semantically structured content 
> and I have decided that I feel a pattern library like the one 
> presented by Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler at 
> this years summit may be the way to go. I also think that 
> certain situation or work environments would benefit from the 
> opportunity to have an extra interation to refactor interface 
> code. I know for me I have more coders  on my team then 
> wireframers and if I run past project numbers I think I might 
> actually save time when i start with HTML.
>  

For what it's worth, I'm preparing to do a project (large, heavily
interactive, content managed)) that uses an "integration" of Fireworks
with MS Word to produce the main deliverables for the IA work
(wireframes, HTML prototoypes, functional spec, UI flows, etc.). If
anyone's got any energy left after this thread (in about 6 months
time...) I'll report back.

Jonathan




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