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Interface Design Document
Step 4: Site map, storyboards, and schematics
Due: Friday, November 9
Background
For your final project, you will create a Web site that consists of at least 15-20 Web pages. In
addition the site should be suitable for a task-centered design approach in which users interact to
accomplish specific goals or tasks. The site needs to help users perform tasks (e.g., enter
information, sort and display information or images based on user input, make purchases, etc.).
Since the goal of the project is to learn about designing and evaluating an interface, the process
and the user interface are of paramount importance, not the underlying application.
In step 4, you create a site map, storyboards, and schematics of your site. Create a PDF file of
Step 4, upload it to your PUB folder, and make a link to it on your class home page.
Site map: A site map is a high-level diagram that reflects the information architecture of the site
and, to a degree, its navigational structure or flow. You may create the site map with PowerPoint,
Word, or some other application with which you are familiar. The figure below is an example of a
basic site map. Your map should reflect the major and minor sections of the site and how they
connect. By examining the map, a reader should easily identify the sections of the site, site
hierarchy, and the overall amount of Web pages contained within it.
