Link to Your Blog Post for November 30

Please post a link to your tenth and final article review.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 23

Please add a link to your penultimate article review.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 16

Please add a link in the comments to your eighth article review. Remember that linking from these posts is your official submission of work.

Content Inventories, Site Diagrams, and Wireframes

The articles below provide a review of the documentation techniques that we discussed in class on Wednesday night (November 9). Each article concentrates on one of three subjects: content inventories, site diagrams, or wireframes.

Everything you read should sound familiar, although each author offers a slightly different perspective on what we discussed in class. The first article is the most succinct and clear, but all will add to your understanding of these techniques.


1. Doing a Content Inventory (Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site)
By Jeffrey Veen
http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000040.php

Download Jeffrey Veen's sample content inventory spreadsheet at the end of the article and check it out. It's more elaborate than what we discussed using, but it's a good example of how you might use this method to document an existing site.

2. Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space 
by Jason Withrow
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/site_diagrams_mapping_an_information_space

Jason Withrow, author of the second article, also discusses content inventories, but focuses more on creating site diagrams. We discussed in class how site diagrams relate to content inventories, but he adds more information about iconography and additional uses for this type of representation.


3. The what, when and why of wireframes 
by James Kelway
http://userpathways.com/2008/06/26/the-what-when-and-why-of-wireframes/

James Kelway discusses wireframes and their relevance to the development process in this third article. It's a little fragmented, but he makes some observations worth reading about why they still have a place in a world of rapid prototyping.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 9

Please add a link to this week's article review in the comments of this post. As I mentioned in class tonight, please keep an eye on formatting consistency from review to review. Only three more to go!