31. •BA/PM/Planner:
An IA can help you consider and plan
for all scenarios.
•Dev:
An IA can help answer your questions
about what was intended.
•QA:
An IA can help you determine test
scenarios.
45. Wireframes (wires)
•Determine hierarchy of data
and functionality
•Consider where you
want eyes to go
•Predict user behavior
•Plan for permutations
•Consider process flow
•Based on Biz Reqs
53. UI Functional Specs
•Call out specific behavior
•Provide IF/Then scenarios
•Account for errors
•Accounts for permutations
(that may not be present in
original art
•Helps fill in any holes that
might exist from original
planning.
54. Process Recap
(as seen from an IA perspective)
Idea
Biz
Req
vetting Wires Art
UI
Spec
Dev QA
55. Stuff for us to figure out together:
When to
engage
an IA
How this
process
marries into
your existing
processes
How IA
deliverables
can be
tweaked to be
more useful
to you
Where do
docs live
When’s
lunch
QA
Editor's Notes
Title page
First, let’s talk about the what…
Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone while I’m standing in line for coffee…
Or maybe having a cocktail at a cocktail party…
And the small talk goes something like this:
An information architect…
Is to a website
As an architect
Is to a building.
Just to be clear, I’m not REALLY comparing myself to FLW.
But this really is my design/architecture
Say you’re building a home - you start out with an idea…
You’ll work with an architect to turn that idea into blue prints.
The same goes for a business idea.
An information architect will help turn that idea into a “blue print” or wireframes
IA deliverables: Wires and specs
IA deliverables: Wires and specs
Let’s talk about wireframes.
The purpose of wireframes is to “sketch out” an idea. It can be on a napkin.
I sometimes do a pencil sketch first and the go to visio.
Flow diagrams can also be important at this stage. Sometimes, as I work on the flow diagram, I find I need to alter the wires to accommodate more scenarios.
What wire frames are and why they’re a good thing.
UI Functional Specs deal more with specifying behavior.
