DrupalCon is coming to London on 21st - 26th August 2011

Submitted by markchallinor
on 12 November 2010 - 4:23pm
 
 
DrupalCon is an international event that brings together the people who use,  develop, design and support the Drupal platform. DrupalCon London 2011 will feature content from the most influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and beyond, in addition to countless opportunities for networking, code sprints, and more.
 
 

Why do Information Architecture ?

Submitted by markchallinor
on 12 November 2010 - 3:08pm

Information architecture is the science of figuring out how to build a site that;

  • Meets your requirements
  • Makes it easy for your customers to find things
  • Makes it easy for your customers to do things
  • Makes it easy for you to communicate with your customers
  • Blows the socks off the competition and your customers

No one would seriously consider building even the most basic building with out employing an architect to produce the plans for a builder to follow; so it should be with building a social web application.

At Velocit we follow the five steps to Information Architecture

Step 1 - Define

Agile, from a development process to a product creation process

Submitted by markchallinor
on 12 November 2010 - 2:57pm

The people who are successful with agile realise that it’s not just a set of techniques; agile is about creating better products, and making the process less painful along the way; but, agile’s roots are in the product development world, not the product creation world. So how do you make sure your agile processes take on board the contributions of end users, business management, product managers and other team members?

 

Don’t lose sight of the vision. Somewhere in the process of creating a web application, it’s necessary to define “What does this product do?” “Who is the customer and