The Wireframe Audiences Chris Poteet, December 3, 2008 Information Architecture is a difficult field. Not only do we continually have to sell the importance of our field, but we also serve a role that most IT people do not. We walk the thin line between business analysts and designers; we also have the difficult job of translating functional… Continue Reading
A Primer on Information Architecture: Introduction Chris Poteet, August 6, 2008 Information Architecture (IA) is one of the most important and exciting concepts in designing applications, but it also one of the least understood by a majority of designers, programmers, business analysts, etc. Hopefully through the following overview of the major concepts and benefits you can immediately improve both the utility… Continue Reading
The Value-Up Paradigm Chris Poteet, February 9, 2008February 25, 2008 The paradigms I’m going to contrast are how we view the entire development process. I will refer to two different paradigms: the first is the “work-down” approach which I will contrast with the “value-up” approach. I read about this in Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System concerning the… Continue Reading