Refresh Dallas | November 2005

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Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of new media endeavors in the Dallas area.

Boxes and Arrows (and Common Sense)

November 10, 2005 | 7:30pm – 9:00pm

What exactly is information architecture? What are the pros and cons (and various types) of wireframes? What is a folksonomy, and how does it contrast with a controlled vocabulary? Guest speakers Garrett Dimon and Stephen Anderson will offer different views on information Architecture = sharing some of their actual IA deliverables, as well as the tools and activities that worked (and in some cases didn’t work!) across various projects.

Presenters

View the Presenation Files & Mini-Site and you can watch the video as well.

Featured Stuff - Resources: Wireframes & Page Description Diagrames

Omnigraffle and Visio versions of the wireframe templates and stencils I use on all of my projects. There’s even a few examples included for good measure. More about Wireframe & Page Description Diagram Stencils and Templates

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