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Great presentation by Leah Buley of Adaptive Path at the 2008 IA Summit.

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No matter what program or tool one uses to create wireframes, a good set of stencils always helps. In the organizations I’ve worked at, I’ve used everything from PowerPoint, Illustrator, OminGraffle, and Visio. From my discussions with other UX Designers, OmniGraffle (for the Mac) and Visio (for the PC) seem to be the most popular.

If you don’t want to create your own stencils, a good place to start is the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. They have a set of stencils for Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, and Visio. In addition, OmniGraffle users should check out Graffletopia, which has stencils for just about anything. URLGREYHOT also has some for Visio and OmniGraffle that I’ve used before with much success.

A good set of stencils will save you time and help make your wireframes look beautiful and consistent.

A demo of Microsoft’s new multi-touch computer and interface called TouchWall.

I wrote about The Future of Folksonomies before so of course I was interested when I read an article on Using tags to improve the Flickr experience. The article discusses a talk given by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s service director of product management, about the next generation of tagging and how tags can provide a better user experience when searching and discovering.

I think the article just reaffirms my point that information architects are and should be looking for new, creative, and intuitive ways to use tagging not only on sites like Flickr, but on all kinds of sites. I’m interested in seeing the various uses of tagging in the next few years.