Redesign The Data Dump
“Information architecture still has a long way to go” (Business 2.0 on Richard Saul Wurman’s ‘Information Anxiety 2’)
All posts from
November 2000
The Butterfly Effect
“(…) why usability really matters” (FeedMag interviews the NN Group on the Florida ballot, usability, and XML)
Valerie Casey of Frog Design
“(…) information designers who have a strong visual sense are usually more successful” (Adobe Web Center Gallery)
Design Matters
“April 2000 issue now available” (Society for Technical Communication)
Methods for Assessing the Usage and Usability of Documentation
“(…) focus on comparisons between printed and electronic documentation” (Mark H. Chignell et al. – Dept. of Industrial Engineering – Univ. of Toronto)
The Ballot in Question
Bad Infodesign Example or ‘Why Gore Lost The US Election’ (Sun-Sentinel)
Information Design Resources
“(…) structuring is comparable to cartography” (ByteRyte)
The Communication Research Institute
“(…) a training program for professional communication and information designers” (Mail CRIA)
Information Architecture 2000
Conference Presentations Available (Strange Connections – ACIA)
What Can We Learn From Jakob Nielsen?
“(…) pick out the most interesting stuff” (Philip Greenspun – ArsDigita Systems Journal)
The Art of Information Architecture
“Information Architecture is the practice of designing the infrastructure of a Web site, specifically the navigation” (iBoost)
Design Science Journal
“(…) 99 percent of the interactivity on the Web today is navigation” (Ignition Design)
How Websites Learn
“Information Architecture that adapt to use” (Peter Merholz)
Interface Design and Optimization of Reading of Continuous Text
“(…) reading is the means by which the world does a large part of its work” (Paul Muter – University of Toronto)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
“(…) the official journal of the American Society for Information Science” (John Willey & Son)