Andy is a user experience designer with a penchant for information architecture and interaction design. He has given talks and workshops worldwide and is fascinated with the vagaries of cognition and understanding. Andy blogs at language + meaning + user experience architecture and tweets from @andybywire.
Systems build on systems, and those simple systems can provide a key to designing for more complex spaces. In the space of digital design, if you ensure that your simplest dynamic systems of content, structure and meaning-making work as intended at a foundational level, then you can lay the groundwork for larger, more complex systems that also work as intended. In this article, Andy Fitzgerald will show you how to use a simple set of open-source tools to introduce real, dynamic content into your prototyping process from day one. This approach allows you to focus on how users understand your content from the very start of a project and to subsequently build structural, visual and technical elements atop that foundation of understanding.
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