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ION Recap
Chris and I introduced ION (Interface Object Notation) at the IA Summit 07 (our presentation) over the weekend. We were happy to receive many positive comments and helpful suggestions. Most of these reflected some of my concerns and overall hesitance in presenting ION at such an early stage. But let me take a step back and explicitly state what we think ION’s purpose is:
- ION is a notation system used to describe RIAs and complex interface behavior, though it is also applicable to standard interface behavior as well.
- ION strives to be a standardized notation used to describe wireframes and interface objects, in order to promote clarity and consistency.
- ION is meant to facilitate communicate between an Interaction Desiger/Information Architect and a developer or other designers within a team through the use of a common language. ION is especially applicable for dispersed development over multiple location and/or continents. ION potentially can be used to communicate interface behavior to non-technical project stakeholders and clients.
LDD and ION Slides
Thanks to everyone who came to our presentation at the IA Summit. We had a lot of interesting conversations with people over the rest of weekend and we'll be incorporating the feedback we received into the next iteration of ION. Here are the slides for our presentation at the IA Summit: iasummit.zip (5mb).
If you're interested in ION, please let us know by commenting below. We're going to create a wiki for ION development. Also, until we get the wiki up, I'll post my future iterations on this blog.
Presenting at IA Summit 07
At this years IA Summit, held in Las Vegas, Chris and I will be giving a presentation on The Living Design Document and ION: Documenting RIA's. We will be discussing our big ideas in regards to the life-cycle of design documentation and our effort to easily describe interface behavior in a standardized manner at an object level. After we present, we will post our Keynote and related material to The Loop.