The Tuesday, July 11th meeting of the Rocky Mountain
Internet Users Group (RMIUG) will be a special joint
meeting with the ACM's Rocky Mountain Special Interest
Group for Computer-Human Interaction (RM-CHI). We
will discuss "Visio for Information Architecture and
User Interface Design: Beyond Boxes and Arrows."

Visio, Microsoft's ubiquitous diagramming program,
enables artistically-challenged people to map
complex processes, systems, or interfaces so that
they are easy to understand. In the website, web
application, and software design world, this could
mean things like
o Site maps
o Storyboards
o Interaction diagrams and flow maps
o Network topology diagrams
o Business Process diagrams

Visio comes with thousands of pre-supplied shapes that
we can drag and drop to create meaningful diagrams in
seconds.
But, with its open architecture, Visio can do a whole
lot more including more productive rapid-prototyping
and detailed interface diagramming.

Tonight, we will get "dirty" with Visio and learn
about how it can do even more for us, as we spec the
information architecture and user interface design for
websites and web apps.

We will bring in the following speakers to explore
this topic:

The first speaker (to be announced) will cover Visio
basics very briefly, then move on to intermediate
topics such as
o Re-using pieces of a Visio diagram. Suppose you are
creating a website site map, including navigation on
every page. If the navigation changes, you change it
once, and the changes appear in every instance of the
navigation.
o Creating a control panel on the Visio page, to show
and hide Visio layers. This technique has been used
to illustrate different page states for AJAX
applications.

The second speaker, Jason T. Williams, will
demonstrate Intuitect(tm), a Visio add-on
Intuitect(tm) offers seamless construction of
navigation maps (sitemaps), wireframes, flowmaps, and
high-fidelity prototypes. Intuitect eliminates
manual, repetitive "boxes and arrows" tasks, allowing
information architects, user experience designers,
interaction designers, and other website design
professionals to focus on creativity.
o Use the Quick-Site Architect to quickly transform
"white board" concepts into high-level navigation
(sitemap) diagrams Updates in navigation view cascade
through wireframes
o Save and re-use wireframes in the Wireframe Library.
o Export Intuitect projects to HTML, XML or Excel
spreadsheet for validation, content inventories and
cross-functional collaboration with your team.

Before founding Intuitect, Jason architected and
developed network visualization and analytical tools
on the Visio platform for Crosswalk, Inc., a
Westminster-based startup in the storage industry. In
his role as Development Director at Leopard, a
Boulder-based interactive marketing agency, Jason
architected and managed delivery of more than 20
enterprise-class e-commerce, e-learning, and web
portal applications for clients including IBM,
Emerson, and Qwest. Before joining Leopard, Jason
managed website application development and performed
technical due-diligence research for venture-funded
clients at IGS, a Boulder-based custom software
development firm.


URL's of interest:
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Microsoft's Visio website
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857981033.aspx

Intuitect
www.intuitect.com

Rocky Mountain CHI
www.indra.com/~rm-chi


The meeting is Tuesday, July 11th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
(with optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments and
informal networking). The meeting will be held at The
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from
the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for
approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills. NCAR is at
the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving
directions, go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/),
click on Driving Directions, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium,
right off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to
the public, but we may pass the hat to help defray
expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is
usually enough room to accommodate all attendees, but
it's impossible for us to predict how many people will
show up for any given meeting. Seating is always on a
first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit
additional people into the auditorium after all seats
are filled.

The July 11 meeting is a joint effort with the Rocky
Mountain chapter of ACM SIGCHI-- the Special Interest
Group for Computer/Human Interaction, part of the
Association for Computing Machinery professional
group. Learn more about SIGCHI at
http://www.acm.org/sigchi, or contact local
chairperson Laurie Lamar, rm-chi@....

Thanks to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG
meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides
Creative and Technical talent for Web, Interactive
Media, Marketing Communications and Software
Development projects, is the sponsor of food and
beverages for RMIUG meetings.

ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based
software company that provides semi-custom web-based
applications, sponsors the RMIUG meeting minutes.

Copy Diva (http://www.copydiva.com) which provides
marketing project management, marketing communications
consulting, and web content development is the AV
sponsor for RMIUG.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring
Internet-related Product information, brochures, and
business cards which will be displayed on an
information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, see
http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html You can also reach
the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at
rmiug-comm@.... Our web site is at
http://www.rmiug.org/


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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are
their guests. NCAR has security regulations in effect
that we must follow in order to use the facility. If
any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to follow these simple
regulations, I would ask that he or she not attend and
instead read the minutes after the meeting.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be
followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing
ID if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy
are expected when dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this
policy, please contact me directly. Thanks, Josh Zapin
(josh@...).
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