IA/Recon 1/6
The Discipline and the Role (Jesse James Garrett) – courtesy of iaslash
All posts from
January 2002
An Audience With Alan Cooper
“The issue isn’t complexity. The issue is inappropriateness.” (UMLChina)
Uzilla
A Usability Testing Technology Service (About Uzilla)
There Is No Such Thing As Information Design
“Information cannot be designed; what can be designed are the modes of transfer and the representations of information.” (Jeff Raskin – TaskZ) – courtesy of webword
Emergent Architecture
“Is an information architecture which emerges from the system itself of value, as good as it gets?” (Eric Scheid – IAWiki) – courtesy of iaslash
Can Jobs Think Outside the Pretty Box?
Interface guru Jef Raskin, who helped design the first Mac, says Apple has to get beyond its “form fetish” (BusinessWeek online)
Innovation Architecture
“As we embrace the lessons of complex adaptive systems, we must explore the territory of post-modern innovation architecture, using bottom-up methods to incubate online ecologies and economies that exhibit the capacity to learn and evolve over time.”
(Peter Morville – Semantic Studios) – courtesy of lawrence lee
(Peter Morville – Semantic Studios) – courtesy of lawrence lee
Interaction Design Newsletter 2002.1
“Interaction Design Institute Ivrea is starting the new year with a brand new and long awaited issue of its newsletter full of news and announcements.” (Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) – courtesy of brad lauster
Question-Answering and Search Engines
“Search engines are not very good at finding specific answers, they are good at matching words (…)” (SearchTools)
Information Architecture for The Rest of Us
“(…) to explain information architecture in a very simple and clear manner.” (John Rhodes –WebWord)
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information (George A. Miller 1956)
Dave Schroeder of Pilotvibe Talks About Sound Design for Interactive Multimedia
“What’s happening with sound design (for interactive) these days?” (Dave Schroeder – Design Interact) – courtesy of iaslash
Mind Your Phraseology!
Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability (Christina Wodtke – Digital Web Magazine)
Netscape Navigator vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer
“(….) users felt that Netscape was an overall better web browser than IE in all the areas surveyed.” (Carolyn Gargaro) – courtesy pf webword
Out-sourced or In-house?
“(….) cost is the over-riding priority.” (Tom Farrell – Frontend Usability InfoCentre)
Web Design Basics
“Web design is primarily concerned with the organization and presentation of text-based content. This requires metadata, classification, navigation, search, layout and graphic design skills.” (Gerry McGovern)
Easy Topic Maps
“(…) a place to learn about topic maps” (Peter Van Dijck)
User-Centered Design and Web Development
“UCD seeks to answer questions about users and their tasks and goals, then use the findings to drive development and design.” (Raissa Katz-Haas – STC Usability Interface) – courtesy of elegant hack
An Experience Continuum
Web Usability
A Guide to Better and Improved Usability on the Web
(Clear Design) – courtesy of lucdesk
(Clear Design) – courtesy of lucdesk