Information Architecture Really is a Creative Pursuit
“(…) information architecture is the foundation of a useful web site.” (Abel Lenz – Design Interact)
All posts from
December 2001
A Framework for Organizing Web Usability Guidelines
“(…) a general framework of web usability guidelines helping people to structure the way they are working with such guidelines.” (Dominique Scapin et al. – 6th Conference on Human Factors & the Web 2000)
Interface Innovation
The Future of Information (Tim McDonald – osopinion)
A Chat with Peter Metholz
“Rectangles have been the basic building block of graphic user interfaces since the beginning.” (Mark Bernstein – eNarrative)
Information Architecture versus Graphic Design
“Quality web design is driven by information architecture design principles. Graphic design should support these principles.” (Gerry McGovern)
What Exactly Are IA Components?
“An IA component is any part of an information system (e.g., a web site) that gets users to content.” (Louis Rosenfeld)
Self-Organizing Sites
“Today, the Internet is a significant channel for conducting commercial transactions, disseminating information, entertaining, and more, resulting in a deluge of online information.” (Hisham Alam – WebTechniques)
SIGIA-L MailArchive
“This is the archive for the SIGIA-L@asis.org mailing list” (Louis Rosenfeld – Info-Arch.org)
Digital Libraries
Metadata Resources (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Distributed and Disappearing UIs in Ubiquitous Computing at CHI2001
Workshop Paper as in the CHI2002 Proceedings
The Access Guides and the Contradictions of Design
“(…) Richard Saul Wurman’s original vision of the once-excellent Access Guides had been dramatically watered down” (Phil Agre – Red Rock Eater Digest)
Usability and HTML Forms
“Good usability will also help to improve your form completion rates.” (Andrew Starling – E-Commerce Guide)
Speech Interface Guidelines
“(…) an overview of speech interface design principles” (Alexander I. Rudnicky – School of Computer Science, CMU)
Product Language in Electronic Media Design
Designing the User Experience
“(…) these presentations are partially self running, you only need to click between scenes” (Clark MacLeod)
DVD Menu Design
The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again (Donald Norman – Alertbox)
The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes
And Other Notes of the Distinction Between Style and Design (Adam Greenfield – A List Apart)
Human Desire
Making the internet more personable (Paul Tate – Internet World)
HCI & IA
Information, Interaction, Interface and Usability Architects Share Deliverables (Keith Instone – CHI 2002)
Origin of the Phrase ‘Information Architecture’
“(…) ideas associated with the phrase “information architecture” and relates them to aspects of the library- and information-science (LIS) professions.” (R. E. Wyllys, GSLIS – Univ. of Texas Austin)