Re: Software for large graphics?

[William Gaffga <will -dot- gaffga -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Do you really need to go to that extent (pictures taped to a wall)? What
about starting with a mind map? A free app like Freemind <
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > will let you
quickly enter and visualize associations. I've used these tools numerous
times for understanding large projects.

This way you can easily fold and unfold groups to streamline or dwell down
into sections for greater understanding. You;ll be able to do this on your
desktop and if you need it so the whole group can see it big, use a
projector on the wall. Having a whole project projected on a wall and
folding and unfolding as the group brainstorms is great fun. If you're into
that sorta thing.

List of mindmap apps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software

Project the project's projections with a projector. Not quite "Buffalo
buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." but still fun.
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Question for the group
>
> Our new Product Manager wants to make a "map" of our product as an
> exercise to understand how everything fits together and a starting
> point for identifying missing features and possibly redesigning work
> flows.  His idea is to combine screen shots to create process flows on
> a large scale, then print everything out on our huge plotter printers.
>
> My question is, what would be the preferred software for creating a
> document that contains a lot of images and where the document size
> might be measured in feet rather than inches? For example, what do you
> use when designing banners for marketing displays?  Or creating data
> dictionaries for databases?
>
> I've got Visio and InDesign available to me, and could probably get my
> hands on other software.  Although I think CAD would probably be
> overkill for this project.
>
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