Creating Flow Charts: September 2009 Workshop

At a Glance

• Date: September 25, 2009
• Time: 1pm - 5pm (4 hours)
• Description: Plan your user experiences more effectively with flow charts, wireflows, and storyboards
• Location: The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD (Convenient parking and metro access!)
• Price: Regular US$244 Early US$195 (through 9/11)

Register Early for 20% off

Registration is US$244 US$195 and is managed through PayPal. You can pay with a major credit card.

Target Audience

This workshop is geared toward beginning and intermediate user experience professionals.

Why Flow Charts?

In designing user experiences, a little planning goes a long way. Though it’s tempting to dive into wireframes or screen designs right out of the gate, successful design projects rely on fleshing out the entire user experience before elaborating on the details.

A flow chart (or variation) helps designers and the rest of the project team envision the whole experience. This holistic view can help plan projects, depict the scope, identify risks, establish an inventory of screens to design, and define requirements for each screen. Later in the process, flow charts provide context for more detailed design activities, answering the question, “What screen are we looking at here?” And downstream, flow charts help quality assurance teams define testing scenarios.

The more I do this, the more I believe storyboards/flows and site maps are required for every IA or IxD project.
– Austin Govella, on Twitter

Outline

• Introduction
• Flow charts defined
• Variations: storyboards and “wireflows”
• When to use a flow chart
• Making Flow Charts
• Anatomy of a flow chart
• Bucking convention
• Considerations for assembling a flow chart
• Opportunities to embellish flow charts
• Using Flow Charts
• Keeping them up to date
• Incorporating them into deliverables
• Building wireframes from flow charts

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will know:

• How to create a flow chart using conventional shapes
• How to extend and elaborate basic flow charts
• How to use flow charts with wireframes and other user experience deliverables
• How to present flow charts to stakeholders and other team members

Register Early for 20% off

Registration is US$244 US$195 and is managed through PayPal. You can pay with a major credit card.