Ideas2Wire

From fuzzy website ideas to well documented website wireframes, plans and prototypes that bring concepts to life

Quick Sketches For iPhone Architecture

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

I ran across this cool product if you are looking sketch down quick iPhone ideas.  The iphone sketchbooks can be found at http://www.pocketsketches.com and allow you to quickly jot down your iPhone ideas.
The product already has multiple images of an iphone over grids so you can draw lines easier.  Personally I didn’t use them in [...]

Style Guides – Axure Widget Library File

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Tired of dragging the h1, h2, h3 and paragraph text Axure widgets separately onto each wireframe?
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I was. I finally decided to create three widget style guides that I could drag and drop to each page. These three widths (560px, 600px and 640px) fit most of the content areas of my 960px grid layouts. [...]

Advertising Web Ads – Axure Widget Library File

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Why I Retired the Advertising Y!DSK Library File (Advertising_Y!DSK.rplib)?
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Naming conventions are important when rapid prototyping. I have hundreds of widgets in my Axure widgets library and don’t like to hunt for elements. That is why I decided to reorganize and renamed the old Advertising Axure Library File.
For example I prefer the name Full [...]

Rivalry Rage Website Plan

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Overview
What’s the big idea?
A potential client, Tim Jones contacted us to help build a social community. Tim is a highly intelligent consultant, providing expertise to the Department of Defense in support of operations and new innovative technologies. Big ideas is what Tim Does. This time, he brought his creativity to the social community space.
His idea [...]

Prototype Your Social Network Website Design

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Prototyping is a vital component of the website design process for social networking websites. If you are designing a brochure website, it is possible to envision the website coherently in your mind. Social networks, however, tend to involve multi-dimensional hierarchies and other IA models that have more inherent sophistication.
Information Architecture Models
When deciding upon the architecture of [...]

Planning Your Social Network

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Planning your social network is critical to its success. Time invested in the planning phase will save you time later on. Effective planning can allow you to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities in the business model.
Research The Market

It is critical that you develop an understanding of any similar social networks. Perhaps they exist in a different [...]

Setting Business Goals For Your Social Network

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Most businesses set targets and goals, and all businesses should. Without them, it’s difficult to evaluate your success and identify areas for improvement. Social networks face unique challenges in setting business goals, which are addressed within this article.
It is almost always dangerous to consider one business goal in a silo. Increasing revenue might look [...]

Information Architecture: IA & The Social Network

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Information architecture (IA) is the approach you take to structure and navigation on your website. The IA model that you choose will have an impact on how you design your site. For some websites, this is as simple as choosing to put all your content on a single homepage. For a social network’s IA, a [...]

Website Navigation Models For Social Networking Websites

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Intro
There is no right or wrong navigation model for a social networking website. Social networks usually combine more than one method in their website architecture, providing a choice for website users.  Too much choice can risk causing confusion and cluttering your design. In this article, we shall guide you to choosing an intuitive and attractive [...]

Designing Interactions Users Truly Experience

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

A web site prototype is a working model of a new website before it undergoes final design and development. Through the web site prototyping process, you can see a realistic representation of how your new website will function once developed. Web prototyping simulates the final look and behavior of your website prior to coding.
Creating A [...]