I would use the decision diamond as this is what is traditionally used in flowcharts to represent a decision needing to be made, in this case, probably what is the user doing to create which state in the system. If there is a generic decision, such as "What happens?" then have five different paths leading from the diamond, labeling each path with the appropriate identifying scenario text, such as "error message is generated", "success message is generated", goes to some other system, whatever the case may be.
Hope that helps. Courtney Jordan -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of min Ouyang Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:01 AM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Flowchart: action box or decision box? I'm doing an exercise to practice the design of task flow. I have one step which has 5 options in it. And the user is supposed to choose one and move forward. In this case, shall I use the diamond decision box or the rectangular action box to illustrate this step? I googled a little bit. And it seems that the outcome of a diamond box is usually YES or NO instead of options. Where can I find more complicated samples for learning purpose? Thanks. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org 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 ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
