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Comment on Decision-Based Design by Richard Warzecha

Richard Warzecha — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:13:25 +0000

Dan, thanks for reposting this. Great ideas are timeless, it’s a pity we have to stare at them for so long before many of us do anything great with them.

I like what this means for the convergence of content strategy and information architecture. A process like you describe should force the question: “What does the user need to make a decision in this state/page?” Part of that is what message or content they need to be presented (often a concern of Content Strategists), another part is what functionality needs be presented (traditionally a concern of IAs).

When we view it that way, it’s clear we need a unified approach, with its own vocabulary, structure, and process. From my view this floats at some higher level than Content Strategy and Information Architecture.

Comment on Decision-Based Design by David Airey on letterpress; Decision-Based Design « Design and Innovation Daily

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:10:10 +0000

[...] On a completely unrelated topic, Dan Brown republished a 2005 article in which he describes an unusual approach to software design. Instead of using functional specifications, information architecture, or user personas as the main drivers of the design process, Brown focused on the large and complex set of decisions that users must make while using the software; he treated the software as a system built primarily to support the users’ decision-making: “Decision-Based Design.” [...]

Comment on Decision-Based Design by Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:06:06 +0000

This approach is really interesting. Have you (or have others) written more about this? Did you get a sense of how effective the process would be, compared to more traditional techniques?

Comment on Decision-Based Design by charlene

charlene — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:32:14 +0000

Thanks for re-posting this. It’s just the kind of detailed day-to-day process stuff I love hearing about. I’m curious how do you think the activity of creating decision lists differs (if it does differ) from task analysis?

Comment on Poster: Representing Data in Wireframes (IA Summit 2005) by Livia Labate

Livia Labate — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:06:55 +0000

Yay, the end of four years of randomly looking for it on old folders in my hard drive when I need it ;-P Seriously, glad you posted it, it’s a great poster and the content is top notch.

Comment on Reflections on the 2009 IA Summit by javiervelasco

javiervelasco — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:14:31 +0000

Great summary Dan, thanks for sharing this.

Regarding your first point on a core idea, this is something I’d been talking about since the 2004 and 2005 summits in terms of the Central Communication Concept and Central Creative Concept that is used in advertising. I showed this in a 2004 poster http://mantruc.com/files/ia-comm-letter.pdf and 2005 presentation http://mantruc.com/publications/experience-message.html and http://tinyurl.com/dd97ln

Hope this helps!

Comment on Reflections on the 2009 IA Summit by ian alexander

ian alexander — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:08:49 +0000

To your last paragraph—the application of the practical would be a nice contrast to the theoretical. Additionally, I (as a newbie) was/am most interested in the merging of practices which was spoke of only by the minority.

Ian Alexander
Eat Media

Comment on Reflections on the 2009 IA Summit by John Yesko

John Yesko — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:40:04 +0000

Great write-up, Dan. I share many of your perspectives on the Summit.

You guys are doing some impressive things at EightShapes, too.

Comment on My Book by sorin

sorin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:37:44 +0000

Great book but while reading the book I cannot help myself taking notes and making it shorter I feel that I should have a short handbook after passing through all the book in order to use this for any future web related project.

Also, templates(for wireframes, prototypes and persona creation) would help a lot while going through the process.

Overall, I find this book the Bible of every web project. Thank you.

Comment on Contradictory Data and Rigorous Sorting by elise

elise — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:14:03 +0000

canny timing on that. this also came through my feed reader today:

Microsoft’s Vision for 2019 is Data Visualization
http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/02/microsofts-vision-for-2019-is-data-visualization/