Mark,
Thanks for the link. I had posted something relevant to this on the
forums a while ago:
<http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=422>
To avoid the discomfort of having to switch to the forums, I paste
the transcription below.
Best,
Marielle
Flow in Application Design
This is a technique that is presented as useful for designing web
2.0 applications.
Well, the fuss about web 2.0 is that it allows you to design highly
responsive web applications, with some elements within a page that
can be refreshed independently from the other elements within the
page.
The thing is that these features have always characterized the type
of applications you can produce with desktop development
environments like Revolution, RealBasic, etc.
So, any technique that is presented as improving the quality of web
2.0 application has the potential to improve the design and quality
of revolution applications.
Flow Diagramming is one of them.
What is it? This is about encouraging you to think in terms of
flow: How the information changes, how responsive it is, how
feedback is given to the user about the changes that are taking place
A good resource on this is:
Flow In Web Design (short explanation with links to other resources)
<http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/2/>
Flow in Web Design (pdf, 37 pages)
<http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/2/2opt.pdf>
The difficulty then is about finding ways to represent how the
information within the application changes as a consequence of user
actions or script running.
For this purpose, the visual vocabulary proposed by Jesse Garrett
(yep, the guy who published the paper that made Ajax popular)
A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and
interaction design, <http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/>, along with a
Quick Reference <http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/files/
garrett_ia_quickref.pdf>
With practical examples of how this vocabulary can be used to
represent the internal flow within an application:
Slate <http://www.boxesandarrows.com/files/banda/
slate_calculated_refinement_or_simple_inertia/jjg_slate.pdf>
Yahoo email (for some unknown reason doesn't render well in my
browser when I doubled checked the link)
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/files/banda/jjg_ymail_poster.pdf>
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