Dan Willis, Author at Boxes and Arrows

Author: Dan Willis

is a web consultant in Northern Virginia. He's spent the last eight years launching internet products for major media companies after almost a decade of developing, designing and editing newspapers and magazines. He has more personal websites than he really ought to, including: http://www.dswillis.com (a shameless pitch of his consulting services) and http://www.dswillis.com/draw (another shameless pitch, this one a showcase for his illustrations and cartoons).

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July 14, 2004 Deliverables

Are Useful Requirements Just A Fairy Tale? (and why an IA should care)

Posted by Dan Willis

I’ve heard of a fantastic land far, far away where magical people called “project managers” collect something called “requirements.” These requirements so clearly, concisely, and completely describe work to be done that all the villagers involved share a common understanding of a project’s goals.

IA Classics: Tools of the Trade in Comic Book Form

Posted by Dan Willis

“What I need are highly condensed overviews,” I thought, “like those comic books that convert great literary works into a few illustrated pages. They condense Moby Dick down to 12 pages and provide a version of Great Expectations that can be read in 15 minutes.”