Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Flowchart

Why do you want to use flowchart in your mobile interface design and screen design?


How will it help yours users to meet the interactive goals?


1) In my own opinion, I think flowchart is to help us to notice that the steps and the effect when we are doing our interface design. For example, if we choose yes in the flowchart, what will go next; same like in mobile n screen design, if we put the icon here, when we click it what will happen or we put another icon and click will give different effects. So, flowchart could let us think the steps we want to do next in order to get wrong.

2) I think flowchart is very good to categaries things and brainstorms our idea. For example, this big topic is divided to several small topic and in those subtopic we can brainstorm more and more small idea to make a big flowchart. We can apply this methode into our interface design too, we can make a lot of different ideas and create a lot of different styles to make the interface more intersting.

3) I think we having our flowchart is to save time. As a designer, time is money. Once we step the wrong foot into the wrong road in the beginning, we will waste up a lot of time and money. So, flowchart could help us to solve this kind of problems. We can first make our own flowchart to show the steps of the progress of the interface design. If have anything wrong we could straight away correct the mistake and wont ned much time on it.

4) Moreover, flowchart is easily been presented by designer to client. when we need to present our idea to client, we need to have a flowchart to told them hows the interface work. What if we dun have flowchart? I think the presentation will like a mess, we could not just talk hows the progress going on but did not show any examples to the client. Of corse, we can straight complete the interface, but what if the client did not like it?? or need to have some refines? Interface design is not an easy job so if we do not have a flowchart to lead us, i think is very hard to complete a interface design.

8 comments:

  1. I'm quite agree with your explanation of how flowchart helps to meet the interactive goals. It is a good idea to put in flowchart into mobile and screen interface. At the moment, users will going to enjoy it well too ~

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  2. "I think we having our flowchart is to save time."
    I agree this. It really will help us to save our time.

    "Flowchart is easily been presented by designer to client."
    I agree also...but I think it also convenient to other people...not only designer...
    It is quite convenient^^

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  3. thx stephanie and piwen, ya, is true doing flowchart really can save up a lot of time. Once we can finish it very fast, we will still have time to do more changing and can notice more mistakes to refine it.

    well, is true, except designers, everyone could use flowchart to do their presentations, I am just list out an example only....hehe

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  4. Yup!! categorize!!! flowchart do look something like this...something like family tree?
    Presenting flowchart is an good idea =3
    since things are categorize easily, simple point, do help client to understand things fast and easy XD

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  5. I agree flowchart help us to notice the steps, becoz it make us know wat wil do next step n we wil nvr feel confused when we doing sum project.
    ^^

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  6. haha...step by step ~~~ easy way...
    I agreed that flowchart to show the steps of the progress of the interface design. If have anything wrong we could straight away correct the mistake and wont ned much time on it~~

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  7. i agreee with u!

    'If have anything wrong we could straight away correct the mistake and wont ned much time on it.'
    yeayea! agree with this =D like wat i wrote for my example(photoshop) XD haha take

    I think we having our flowchart is to save time.
    Totally agree!

    'flowchart is easily been presented by designer to client. when we need to present our idea to client, we need to have a flowchart to told them hows the interface work'
    i agree with this too! Because flowchart can show wat we've done, show the process of it.

    hmm..basically..i agree all of them..LOL

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