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Classic: Electric Word, July 1990 (.pdf)

The Least Boring Computer Magazine In The World ~ "It's always a crap shoot, you never know how an issue is going to turn out.Just coordinating all the elements is a task only slightly less humbling than trying to align all the planets. No wonder it's become a standing joke around the EW office: that moment each issue when we start laying out pages and I get to see the magazine in its final form for the first time, when I proclaim in genuine surprise, hey, this issue isn't so bad - in fact, it's even better than the last. What makes it doubly gratifying this time is that this is the first issue of the rest of our lives. Thirty six months and two publishers later, ElectricWord is independent."

(Louis Rosetto) ~ courtesy of johnrynne

Posted on July 04, 2011 | Permalink

Piet Westendorp (1950-2008)

Karel van der Waarde: "This morning, I received a message from Piet Westendorp's partner that Piet passed away on November 19th. (...) Piet Westendorp has been a remarkable person. I'll miss his clarity of thinking and his direct aproach, but even more, I'll miss his inspirational enthusiasm and curiosity." (InfoDesign-Cafe) - RIP Piet Westendorp

Posted on December 01, 2008 | Permalink

Why information architects are needed in the kitchen

Better content management through information architecture
Presentation given at EuroIA 2008
"(1) Adopt a holistic approach towards the 'front stage' and the 'back stage'; (2) Apply IA expertise to content management; (3) Advise the organization dealing with the change." (Ruud Ruissaard & Peter J. Bogaards)

Posted on October 02, 2008 | Permalink

Karen A. Schriver: The InfoDesign interview

"Regularly, InfoDesign interviews a thought leader in the design industry, focusing on people who are identified with or show strong sensibilities to the design of information and experiences. This time, Peter J. Bogaards interviews Karen A. Schriver." (Peter J. Bogaards)

Posted on September 21, 2005 | Permalink

GK. VanPatter: The InfoDesign interview

"Regularly, InfoDesign interviews a thought leader in the design industry, focusing on people who are identified with or show strong sensibilities to the design of information and experiences. This time, Peter J. Bogaards has a conversation with GK. VanPatter on Next Design(ers), business innovation, cross-disciplinary work, design education and the growing complexity load." (Peter J. Bogaards - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on February 04, 2005 | Permalink

Thomas Vander Wal: The InfoDesign profile

"Learn everything you can from those that have gone before you. Learn to tear apart as well as defend everything you do. Test everything known and assumed. Learn where things break and why. Spend time with people that don't get it and understand why they do not get it." (Peter J. Bogaards - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on August 01, 2004 | Permalink

Fabio Sergio: The InfoDesign profile

"Gathering great people with great ideas under one roof does not necessarily create an economically sustainable company." (Peter J. Bogaards - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on July 26, 2004 | Permalink

Peter Merholz: The InfoDesign profile

"Share that talent with others. Nothing has been as fulfilling for me as sharing what I've learned with others. Publish a blog, join mailing lists, speak at conferences. Never hoard what you know." (Peter J. Bogaards - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on July 20, 2004 | Permalink

Victor Lombardi: The InfoDesign profile

"Victor Lombardi is actively participating in the fields of information architecture and interaction design. He co-founded and served on the board of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture. He slaved away as designer for a number of companies, most notably four years at Razorfish. All this while teaching at the Parsons School of Design. He also led the information architecture practice at a global financial services company. Noise Between Stations is Victor's personal website." (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on June 23, 2004 | Permalink

Adam Greenfield: The InfoDesign profile

"Adam Greenfield is an internationally recognized information architect and user experience consultant. His practice is focused on making complex artifacts easy to understand and use, without sacrificing thoroughness or depth. Adam was the lead information architect for the Tokyo office of well-known web consultancy Razorfish; (...) He now works as a Happy Cog principal with Jeffrey Zeldman. His award-winning personal site can be found at www.v-2.org." (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on June 07, 2004 | Permalink

Beth Mazur: The InfoDesign profile

"Beth Mazur is the founder of STC's Information Design SIG, which has over 1,800 members (the largest of STC's special interest groups). She spends much free time on her weblog, IDblog, and pays the bills by working on the web for AARP. She is co-editor, with Mike Albers, of Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical Communication." (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on June 01, 2004 | Permalink

Aaron Marcus: The InfoDesign interview

"Aaron Marcus is a visionary thinker, designer, and writer, well-respected in international professional communities associated with Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, publishing, and desktop software application development." (Dirk Knemeyer - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on May 19, 2004 | Permalink

Peter Morville: The InfoDesign profile

"Each month, InfoDesign profiles a thought leader in the design industry, focusing on people who are identified with or show strong sensibilities to the design of information and experiences. This month, Peter Morville is our 'victim'." (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on May 01, 2004 | Permalink

Peter Van Dijck: The InfoDesign profile

Each month, InfoDesign profiles a thought leader in the design industry, focusing on people who are identified with or show strong sensibilities to the design of information and experiences. This month, Peter Van Dijck is our 'victim'. (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on April 24, 2004 | Permalink

Jared Spool: The InfoDesign interview

"Jared is one of the most important - and best-recognized - voices in the field of usability. User Interface Engineering, the firm that he founded in 1988, is the world's largest research, training and consulting firm specializing in website and product usability." (Dirk Knemeyer)

Posted on April 02, 2004 | Permalink

Nathan Shedroff: The InfoDesign Interview

"Nathan is one of the pioneers of experience design and popularized the term with the first dedicated book on the topic. He is an expert and leader in the fields of information architecture, interaction design and online and interactive media, with extensive professional experience as an innovator." (Dirk Knemeyer)

Posted on March 01, 2004 | Permalink

Louis Rosenfeld: The InfoDesign interview

"(..) fields like IA and concepts like UX really are new. Certainly the work itself isn't new, but a conscious understanding of them is. Consciousness is a prerequisite for just about everything else in life. So when we're feeling our most frustrated with our clients, our bosses, our colleagues and peers, and the economic harshness of recent years, we have to remember that this is all new, that levels of consciousness are rising, things are get tingbetter, and that it remains an extremely exciting time to be working as a designer of any stripe." (Dirk Knemeyer - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on February 03, 2004 | Permalink

Richard Saul Wurman: The InfoDesign interview

"What is critical is to understand what it is like not to understand. My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it." (Dirk Knemeyer - InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

Posted on January 01, 2004 | Permalink

The document triangle: The interdependence of the structure, information and presentation dimensions

"Every paper and digital document shares three basic dimensions: structure, information and presentation. Although these dimensions are always interwoven, some people in the digital world mostly focus on document structures (e.g. information architects), some on the information they contain (e.g. marketers and writers/editors) while others specialize in the (interactive) presentation aspects (e.g. visual designers and Flash developers). The mutual dependence and interaction of these dimensions is the next level of design and does not regularly get the proper attention." (Peter J. Bogaards - BogieLand)

Posted on November 06, 2003 | Permalink

AIGA: The Power of Design

Conference notes by Dirk Knemeyer (AIGA)

Posted on October 25, 2003 | Permalink

Barbara Tversky: Some Ways Graphics Communicate

Lecture Notes: "Why do animations fail? Animations are conceived as a series of discrete steps. Studies show very few animations are better than static graphs." (Peter J. Bogaards)

Posted on September 19, 2003 | Permalink

User Experience and Human Learning: The underlying thinking of how people learn, acquire knowledge, and understand

"The field of instructional design and technology is also valuable to the UX community, providing theories and knowledge on important aspects of humans behaviour and the role technology plays influencing that behaviour." (Peter J. Bogaards - BogieLand)

Posted on September 01, 2003 | Permalink

The Birth of BogieLand

"(...) sometimes, the best thing to do is not to go with the flow. Therefore, I decided to embark on a new endeavor: to start my own company 'BogieLand'. So with pride, I would like to inform you that BogieLand is launched officially as of today as my personal consulting company for Information Design and Architecture services." (Peter J. Bogaards - BogieLand) - Changes ahead

Posted on July 01, 2003 | Permalink

Sharing Knowledge is Better than Having It

Presentation on "The Structure, Content, and Form in the Information Design and Architecture of Information Artifacts" - (Peter J. Bogaards - STC Belgium)

Posted on May 23, 2003 | Permalink

Lieke Looks Back @IA Summit 2003

"Did I learn new things? No, not really. Disappointing in a way, but on the other hand it's good to see that Europeans aren't doing so badly." (Lieke van der Meer - Informaat)

Posted on April 01, 2003 | Permalink

First Impressions of IA Summit 2003

"Only 12 European visitors and more than 225 American and Canadian visitors join the conference. This really amazes me." (Lieke van der Meer - Informaat)

Posted on March 26, 2003 | Permalink

AIfIA to Operate IA Slash

"Michael Angeles, creator of the information architecture community news site IA Slash, is donating the site to the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture." (AIfIA)

Posted on February 19, 2003 | Permalink