Architecting Applications with Mindmapping Tools
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Explore how mindmapping tools can streamline application design, tapping into your visual brain to enhance efficiency and beauty. Learn from Hal Helms to boost your application architecture!
Architecting Applications with Mindmapping Tools
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Architecting Applications with Mindmapping Tools • Can anything save me time when designing an application? • How can my visual brain help out? By Hal Helms hal.helms@teamallaire.com http://www.halhelms.com/
Fusebox Schematic When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buckminster Fuller
Assigning values to XFAs • PAGE XFA NAME DESCRIPTIVE APPLICATION NAME • Login XFA.submitForm validateUserLogin • Login Validation XFA.success showMainCatalogPage • Product Detail XFA.buyItem addItemToCart • Cart XFA.adjust quantities adjustCartQuantities • Cart XFA.removeItem removeItemFromCart • Registered User XFA.editInfo editUserInfo • Registered User XFA.saveInfoUpdate saveUser • Admin Page XFA.newUser newUser Identifying common nouns
Fusebox 3 considerations • Separate layout from logic. • Consider whether the page is actually integral to the circuit or is an interface. Could there be other interfaces to this same functionality? • Something like a “new user” form is normally not part of a User circuit. • Don’t get confused with permissions when designing circuits.