Information and Computation
“(…) The metaphor about information and computation is interesting.” (Lee Smolin – EDGE)
All posts from
November 2001
Patterns in Practice
A Workshop for UI Designers (Martijn van Welie et al. – CHI 2002)
Richard Saul Wurman
“(…) the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable.” (Mark Wieman – frontwheeldrive)
Tutorial: Functional Specification
“A functional spec is a document detailing the client’s requirements for an application.” (mojofat)
A Smarter Web
“(…) a ‘Semantic Web’ that understands the meanings that underlie the tangle of information” (Mark Frauenfelder – MIT Technology Review)
User Interfaces and Visualization
“This chapter discusses user interfaces for communication between human information seekers and information retrieval systems.” (Matty Hearst – Modern Information Retrieval)
Boxes and Arrows
“(…) the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape.” (contact B&A)
Content as Navigation Tool
“(…) the journey is more important than the destination” (Christopher Schmitt – Digital Web Magazine)
Adaptive Hypertext Networks That Learn The Common Semantics Of Their Users
“The Internet is steadfastly becoming a highly popular medium for the distribution and communication of ideas and knowledge.” (Johan Bollen – VU Brussel BE)
The Speed of Information Architecture
“What bothers me most about web and intranet redesign projects is the widespread practice of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.” (Peter Morville – Semantic Studios)
Internet Access for Human Beings
“How can we make technology adjust to people, instead of vice versa?” (Don Norman et al. – Pop!Tech 2001 Live webcast)
Information Architectect’s Role in UXD
PowerPoint Presentation (Raoul Rickenberg and Lilian Svec – AIGA Experience Design)
Usability News
“(…) bringing you all the latest within the field of usability” (Dave Clarke et al. – British HCI Group)
Paper Prototyping
“(…) this usability testing method can help you sidestep problems before you write your code.” (Carolyn Snyder – IBM developerWorks)
Community Infrastructure for Information Architects
“(…) a hopeful attempt to discuss and capture ideas that may lead to useful shared services for the information architecture community” – (Louis Rosenfeld et al.)
Hypertext Garden
“The attention of the audience is a writer’s most precious possession (…)” (Mark Bernstein – Eastgate)
Sharing Their Knowledge
“(…) the nascent field of user experience can only evolve through the sharing of ideas.” (Adaptive Path)
Practicing Information Architecture SIG
“(…) a collection of information from the ‘Practicing Information Architecture’ Special Interest Group meeting at CHI 2001” (Keith Instone)
You’d Think They’d Learn
Bad Design Kills Web Sites (Leslie Walker – Washington Post)
Visualization of Abstract Information
“(…) recent concepts of visualization of abstract information contained in document databases.” (Rolf Daessler)