Hi George, This request might be more straightforward than you think. Since you mentioned that you have a UX study that supports your decisions, there is presumably a rationale that has lead you to organize the site the way that you did in the site map.
You didn't say what kind of system you are designing. I'm guessing it is either a consumer-facing site, an employee-facing site, or a b2b site. In any of these cases, you can create a concept model or interaction model that reflects the entities involved, the priorities your users have expressed, and the pattern or sequence or media that you intend to use to engage users first at an introductory level, an on-going usage level, and at a loyalty level. If you start sketching these entities, relationships, and priorities, using size, position, sequence etc. to indicate relative importance or ordering, you will end up with a visual representation of the organizational structure, and this should correspond to the site map. If not, you should consider modifying the site map. I posted some simple concept model/interaction model diagram types that I've used to give project sponsors a quick visual representation of the rationale for how a site or interactive piece is structured. They are on my personal site: http://www.bryania.com/?p=91 Hope that helps, /pb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47409 ________________________________________________________________ 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
