This week’s reading: Morville & Rosenfeld, Chapters 12 and 13; jjg.net; semanticstudios.com
I’ll be dividing this week’s response into two blog posts. This first post represents my first stab at practicing the design skills described by Morville and Rosenfeld; I’ve drawn a partial blueprint for the website Wiktionary.org. Please click to view the large version.
This blueprint is necessarily far from comprehensive, but it effectively shows how a user can navigate Wiktionary from either of two access points: the front page or the page for an entry. I’ve used the same visual vocabulary as the examples in the textbook: gray boxes represent pages, white boxes show components of a page, stacked boxes show collections of pages, and dashed rectangles show groups of interrelated pages. It’s imperfect, but in the process of making it I had to think about what components of a page actually need to be represented in a high-level blueprint, and in what cases it might be acceptable to show representative examples rather than every content area and hyperlink.
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