Documentation Landscape

I’ve uploaded our presentation to SlideShare. There are some slides which had layers on them so I’ve made the presentation downloadable as well. For those who remember, at the end of our presentation we had a slide (the one above) that consolodated some of the documentation styles we talked about into a landscape.

I want to get your help in expanding this landscape, you can:

-Reference or summarize the documentation style
-Tell me what range of interaction complexity it’s useful for
-Tell me how much time it takes.
-Or You can download the AI file and edit it and send me the edited document.

I’ll keep a space where the document will be viewable. Please email any additions to me at adrian dot chong at blastradius dot com

Thanks!

Download the Presentation
Download the Documentation Landscape

Anthony Hempell, my manager at BlastRadius, decided that we should try and submit something for the IA Summit 07 in Las Vegas. So we submitted a presentation that talks about the changes in documentation style while communicating rich interaction. This is where the page does not refresh but many interaction states can exist. Depending on the problem a variety of solutions are available from storyboarding, frame by frame interaction, sequential walkthroughs, prototypes, and much more.

Well, we got word last week our submission had been accepted so now comes the hard part of sifting through all the examples and creating a compelling presentation. We hope to touch on a range of documentation that people are currently using and hopefully show some concrete examples of successes and failures through case studies.

The current abstract for our presentation (scroll down to the “IA for Rich Interaction: Tools and Techniques from the Trenches”)

Hope to see you there!