Publications
Publications
Periodically we post articles and white papers related to our craft. These articles are primarily peer focused and our goal is to share some of the insight that we have learned as we are challenged in unique and different ways. We hope you enjoy these articles and please share your thoughts. Send an email to info@clearwired.com and let us know what you think!
Clearwired's Design and Development Process Map
Immersive research is central to creating a compelling user experience
Our design and development process combines the best of agile and user-centered design methodologies. We use our process map to communicate to our clients expected deliverables and milestones. It is used internally to guide our project workflow. As with any process map, it is a guide and we tailor our work to best meet the projects needs and goals.
Introduction to User Experience Design
A light introduction to concepts and related focus areas surrounding user experience design.
Presentation slides and resources from a presentation to the Society for Technical Communication Albuquerque chapter.
Lunch and Learn: RIAs
Building Rich Internet Applications
Presentation slides and resources from our Lunch and Learn: RIA presentation.
ROI of Information Architecture
Discovery is one of the most important phases of a project and sets the tone for what will happen as design begins.
Conducting an great discovery session is a great way to get a project kicked off. This short article shows how to facilitate a discovery session with the client and how to make sure your hear from everyone involved in the project. Keep it fun, blue sky, make make sure you get the details!
Seven Steps to CMS
Don't despair, there are ways to get organized when implementing a CMS.
Implementing a CMS within a large organization is no easy task. There typically many stakeholders involved, content could exist as hardcopy, versioned digital documents or even in scanned print material. This article presents one method to get a handle an this content.
Content Strategy Methods in Project Discovery
This paper describes the processes and benefits of using a content strategy session in web site development to qualify web site content and to begin IA.
This article is a little bit dated from time that I wrote in early 2004. Many of our methods have changed, but I've included it here to provide one way that discovery meetings can be facilitated.