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Assume that you are in charge of a development project and you have about $10,000 to spend on usability. What is the best way to use the money? What is the right thing to do for the organization? What will be best for customers?
Continue readingThis article will expand upon the Visio techniques presented in the last Special Deliverable and will build on them, showing how to create a widget that can be toggled between two states.
Continue readingExternally focused metadata is an essential element of a truly robust enterprise data model. A metadata repository can serve as a fundamental resource for enterprise applications of all kinds. Information architects can play a wide role in designing and developing the kind of metadata required to serve such a broad purpose.
Continue readingFew information architects tap the full power of Visio. For the IA, Visio is a means to an end—a mechanism for capturing some ideas on paper before they are transformed into graphics, HTML, and code.
Continue readingPersonas ought to be one of the defining techniques in user-focused design, but they’ve unfortunately become more of a check-off item than a useful tool. So how did we get here?
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