On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Mark Schraad wrote: > The web is becoming much more about activity, task and > goals than about place. The standard wayfinding methods that were > used in the initial days if IA are no longer enough. In fact a simple > site diagram is not enough to accurately scope the complexity of a > "2.0" site. We now work with dynamic containers that can, not only > support a wide variety of data, but change interactions and > functionality. This is much more than a simple template/data > relationship. So, our sites and site map diagrams appear to have > become simpler, but require some additional means of communicating > the complexity - often a verbal presentation, but in some cases use > case patterns with modal diagrams.
Basically, it's all circling back to a lot of the design paradigms of how traditional desktop client applications work. That's obviously because once you get past the server/client single page request model of the basic browser interaction, and back into refreshing only specific regions of a page, you're basically falling back into similar types of design problems of a desktop client that only refreshes portions of the screen it needs to, and how the main code loop works when anything can be refreshed at any moment if designed and coded to do so. The web 2.0 stuff is still not quite the same as desktop clients yet, but its getting close enough to make the design concerns and constraints similar enough that there's not a whole lot of need to reinvent the wheel for the basics. So imho you're best bet is start pulling out a lot of the old technical design books from before 1995. However, a book that crosses all boundaries and is applicable regardless of the technology is Paul Heckel's Teh Elements of Friendly Software Design. It's easily the best book about software design ever written, a particularly scary feat when you consider he wrote it in 1982. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ *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://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
