This interview is a transcript of a discussion between Nathan Curtis, creator of EightShapes Unify, and Yvonne Shek, a user experience designer at nForm. Yvonne agreed to integrate her 2008 IA Summit Wall of Deliverables winning Scenario Description Swimlane page pattern into the EightShapes Unify collection.
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While it’s easy to create a table of contents using EightShapes Unify, those handy TOCs can sometimes serve a dual purpose: help someone find a specific page, but also help someone understand what a document contains (and, implicitly, what you may be covering during a meeting).
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Therefore, I recent found it necessary to add more descriptive [...]

EightShapes has recently gotten into the groove of facilitating sketching workshops for our clients, rapidly creating new visions for design systems and web applications by inviting together a multi-disciplinary group.

With incalculably valuable input from Todd Zaki Warfel of Messagefirst, we constructed two back-to-back full day sessions. We divided our group into multi-disciplinary teams of 4 [...]

Cindy Chastain got the IA Summit 2009 crowd very excited with her Experience Themes:An Element of Story Applied to Design.
Experience Themes: An Element of Story Applied to Design
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Based on that talk, we’ve incorporated her Experience Theme Matrix page pattern as a part of our library of page patterns. Thanks Cindy!
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Thanks to Will Evans, who’s provided a couple more page patterns for the research category. You can download the PDF to view the patterns, or use the InDesign snippets with the EightShapes Unify set of deliverables. You can read his detailed post on Design Ethonography that includes branded versions of the same templates, or read [...]