Will, If I were in this situation, I would probably be using something like a UML activity flow diagram, a collaboration diagram, or JJG's IA vocabulary.
In the past, when I ran into similar problems (recursion, parallelism, multiple paths, etc.) I usually found that my confusion was based upon thinking that the page was my most granular level of detail.Once I threw that idea away and thought about activities and states, then I found diagramming the orchestration to be easier. Ultimately, of course, the question is who will be consuming these diagrams--and what works best for them. -Todd On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An approach I've been using is sort of a bastardized version of "page > description diagrams" explained by > Dan Brown here: > http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/where_the_wireframes_are_special_deliverable_3 > with some elaboration here: > http://www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=2&NewsId=3991&LinkFile=page2.htm > > It helped an approach where, in our case, we had a completely > component based application where > everything had persistent features on a module basis, but it was fully > customizable on the front-end > and the application functions would vary within certain parameters. > > It's not an abstract visual vocabulary, but I found it jumped both the > hurdles of client understanding > and designer understanding fairly well (I used our salespeople, > project managers and graphic designers > as guinea pigs) while still communicating to our engineers how things ticked. > > Scott > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, yeah (you are the prototype guy!) - but within the constraints of a >> diagram, i was wondering if anyone explored and abstract visual vocabulary >> for communicating recursive iteration. No prototyping allowed! :-) >> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> I'd use a prototype. >>> >>> With a task flow, you'd need to illustrate a series of trees and loops. >>> >>> On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Will Evans wrote: >>> >>> How would you do it? >>>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers! >>> > > > > -- > * It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And > it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible. - Randy > Pausch > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > \ ________________________________________________________________ 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
