A brief overview on Page Description Diagrams that I gave for Misty Weaver's Content Strategy class at the University of Washington.

1. Page Description DiagramsPresented by Nick Finck

2. About Me User Experience Evangelist Blink Interactive Personal Site NickFinck.com Twitter @nickf Nominated Seattle’s sexiest geek Photo by Jeff Croft - http://bit.ly/g0hPil

3. Overview What is a PDD? Why use PDDs? What goes into a PDD? Examples of PDDs PDD activity Q&A

4. What is a PDD?

5. “Page Description Diagrams are simply a tool for communicating IA decisions without talking about the visual design.”

6. PDDs

7. Why should we care?

8. Stuck on design

9. Restrained designers By Jason Campbell

10. “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

12. May be used instead of wireframes, or preceding wireframes.

15. Finalized or draft content

17. Content elements

19. Screen name

20. Three columns (high, medium, & low priority)

22. Some PDD examples

23. Page Description Diagram By Dan Brown

24. Page Description Diagram By Nick Finck

25. PDD activity

26. Thank You

27. Questions

28. Follow-up questions Consulting: BlinkInteractive.com Personal: NickFinck.com Email: nick@blinkinteractive.com Twitter: @nickf