This presentation was delivered at the EuroIA 2009 in Copenhagen.
As User Experience Designers we have always needed a way to communicate the overall structure and pages of a website or application. For many years this has been the traditional, hierarchical sitemap or something close to it. In some cases this is still the right thing to do.
However, the more we have tried to document increasingly varied, complex and loose structures of the experiences we are designing, it becomes clear that we are trying to communicate more than the traditional sitemap allows. Also, one deliverable often has to communicate different levels of information to a number of different audiences. Through our experience and from looking at what others are producing we have noticed a trend towards alternative ways of showing changing structures, relationships and transitions.
Our presentation first sets the stage by defining what we are talking about - the sitemap as a design deliverable that communicates structure. It will then go through the past, present and future of sitemaps, state diagrams and other high-level mapping deliverables. The last part is our vision of where we think the deliverable will (and should) be going in the future.
We see this presentation as a starting point for discussion. Please contact us if you would like to contribute, or use the comment functionality on Slideshare. If this starts to gain momentum, we will set up a more dedicated platform for the discussion.
For more information
Jacco Nieuwland
nieuwland@userintelligence.com
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