About the Wall of Deliverables

History

At the 2008 IA Summit in Miami, the first Wall of Deliverables offered an activity where conference attendees could view and share deliverables with their peers. People could post their favorite deliverable, along with details that defined its context, and near the end of the conference all attendees were invited to vote for their favorite. In addition to this “popular vote,” a judges panel also awarded prized to other deliverables of note.

Why?

Through collaboration and sharing of working, we can improve our own design communications skill. Seeing what’s worked — and what hasn’t worked — can be tremendously helpful in considering our own skill and improving our technique.

What’s in it for me?

The key driver of the Wall of Deliverables is inspiration: to be inspired by and to inspire others. By taking this opportunity to share you own work with such a large audience, you can solicit feedback on how to improve as well as meet new colleagues and create a name for yourself. Plus, cool prizes await!

For those who don’t submit their own deliverable, the wall still provides an environment to learn more about how designers apply common techniques — wireframes, site maps, sketching, concept models, and more — in new and interesting ways.

How do I contribute?

You can submit a deliverable for the IA Summit, or just share a deliverable for the wallofdeliverables.com website.

The team

The folks who deliver:

• Livia Labate -
• Nathan Curtis – Nathan is a principal and founder of EightShapes LLC, a Washington DC-based consultancy focused on information architecture, documentation, and user experience. Nathan creates alot of deliverables, sure, but also builds and teaches large UX teams on how to create design and deliverables more systematically, efficiently, consistently.
• Jacco Nieuwland – Jacco works as a User Experience Consultant at User Intelligence, and creates lots of deliverables for a diverse range of clients. His tool of choice is still Microsoft Visio. He has managed his anger attacks over the functioning of this software by now, and actually released add-ons for Visio to help other people do the same.

PS: If you’d like to volunteer to help facilitate the Wall of Deliverables, please send an email to summitdeliverables@gmail.com.