>Hey all. Having some discussions around here about where link destinations >should be documented. We basically use three 'tools' here - the Business >Requirements Document, the Wireframes, and the Composites. > >In your opinion, where is the best place to list where every link on a new >site should go to? > >Thanks.
Assuming I understand the terminology (which -- as we all demonstrate here at least daily -- is a dangerous proposition) I'm accustomed to doing this: The Business Requirements reflects links in a rough form...as in: within this process, there must be links to these capabilities and to those other processes (actually "links" may be inacurate here... but it's part of documenting what it's gotta do...you do not want to get specific here about any "how" stuff...hence my hesitation about calling out "links" as distinct from "buttons" for example.) Wireframes are where you document links in a specific form: Selecting this activates a link to abc.html and the links that are a part of the persistent navigation and so forth. This is normally done as annotations to the wireframe. I also like to see the composites annotated in a similar manner, simply because it saves flipping back and forth to what next and tends to prevent the errors that come up or persist in that process. But if you want a single list of all the links (and...are you insane?) then you need a separate document. If you want separate lists by page, I'd attach it as a list to the wireframe *in addition* to the annotation attached to each instance of a linking behavior within the wireframe. And you need to keep in mind that as the Thing gets closer to reality, you will both add and remove links; make sure you keep the records. I'd put them all in the same list, make the removed ones italic (or something) and the added ones blue (or something) and keep notes on why you added or removed each one. I realize that's probably more work than you were looking for, but it's amazing how often a collective, obviously correct decision winds up being discussed a month later by the same group, who have just determined collectively that it is obviously wrong. So, I guess the answer is: All of the above. or It Depends. Katie -- ---------------- Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
