ReDsgn

Other One Sheeters

• Card Sorting
• Content Inventory
• Design Standards Guide
• Heuristic Review
• Mental Model
• Personas
• Task Analysis Grid
• Usability Testing
• Use Cases
• User Flows
• Vision Statement
• Wireframes
• Structure Diagram

What is it?

A large grid that communicates design decisions to other stakeholders (e.g. Business unit, Marketing, Engineering) . The grid begins with a scenario, describes a task and is followed by all the sub-tasks necessary to complete the task. The sub tasks are color-coded and prioritized from 1 (must haves) to 4 (some day in the future).

Who uses it?

All Stakeholders use the Grid to visualize the entire scope of the project, including present and future features, how tasks are related, and how tasks extend across multiple user segments.

Essentially, what you are looking at is a visual representation of the Functional Specifications, without having to read a document thicker than your arm.

How It Works

1. Define the Problem or Goal that concerns the project. For example, the problem might be “I need to choose an online college, but they all look the same to me.”
2. Define the Before, After and Future Scenes that are associated with the task.
3. Break out sub tasks, scenarios, considerations, pain-points and map them to functionality.
4. Prioritize functionality from high to future, clearly indicating scope.

Getting More Information

This post is an edited extract from Leah Buley’s site IA One Sheeters with contributions from Tom Dell’Aringa. I am using the One Sheeter concepts here to showcase what I do as an IA and show examples of my work.