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Students are expected to produce professional quality deliverables for their assignments. There are many software options, some of which are licensed and available for purchase while others are open-source and available for free or minimal cost.
I will present deliverables created with Microsoft Visio Professional, Adobe Fireworks, and Adobe Illustrator. Students may use these professional tools or others, including Adobe Photoshop and OmniGraffle. Please do NOT use Microsoft PowerPoint to create your deliverables.
An excellent alternative for students with limited budgets is the OpenOffice.org suite of applications, which includes a drawing tool suitable for creating site architectures and schematics as well as a word processor for personas, scripts, and reports.
Inspirational Things

Information and Interaction Design Symbols:

  • Illustrator Symbols for Sitemaps and Workflows
    For Windows XP users, save this file to:
    C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings\Symbols
    For those of you using Vista or who have a Mac, I'm of little help here...
  • Fireworks Shapes for Sitemaps and Workflows
    Right-click and select "Save File As..." or "Save Link As..." to your computer, then open with Fireworks. If you plan to use these symbols often, I would suggest that you create your own symbol set in the Common Library with them.
  • Unify Templates from Eight Shapes
    Templates, patterns, and processes based on Adobe InDesign for producing nearly all forms of documentation and deliverables for information and interaction design.
  • Wireframe Elements for Illustrator
    Some of the most common elements you might need to mock-up a web site.

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