Personas: Exploring the Real Benefits of Imaginary People
“A persona is a concrete representation of a target user of a product; an imaginary person derived from user research and described in rich detail.” (Tamara Adlin et al. – CHIplace)
All posts from
March 2002
What’s in a name?
TED 2002 Conference Weblog Reports
“(…) an eccentric mix of presentations and performances, celebrities and civilians.” (David Weinberger – JOHO)
Sticky Sites on a Shoestring: One Year Ago …
“I hoped to have a budget that would cover: A series of IA studies with a firm like Argus $300,000. (…)” (The Rogue Librarian)
Got Usability? Talking with Jakob Nielsen
“Design is creating something that has a purpose in life; Art is creating for the sake of creating.” (Chad Thornton – Boxes and Arrows)
Guide To Ethnography
“Ethnography is a fascinating technique to do research on human behaviour.” (Poor But Happy)
Empirically Validated Web Page Design Metrics
“A quantitative analysis of a large collection of expert-rated web sites reveals that page-level metrics can accurately predict if a site will be highly rated.” (Melody Y. Ivory et al. – ACM SIGCHI ’01)
ASIS&T 2002 IA Summit 2002
Conference Full Schedule (American Society for Information, Science and Technology – Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Boxes and Arrows: Because We Can
“(…) the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape.” (About Boxes and Arrows)
What Is Information Design?
“Information design has a much broader focus than the appearance of information.” (Saul Carliner)
Taxonomy, Classification, and Metadata Resources
Set of Online Resources (Scottish Electronic Staff Development Library)
Kevin Carey: Ambassador for Information Design
“His mission is to explain why information presents people with problems and what to do about it.” (Usability News)
User-Centered Design For Different Project Types: Part 1
“Much has been written about methodologies for designing software that meets user needs. But little emphasis has been placed on what types of activities are truly essential in achieving these goals.” (Jack Scanlon & Lynn Percival – IBM developersWork)
Immersed in Structure: The Meaning and Function of Taxonomies
“Taxonomies are an increasingly popular method of organizing information in a digital environment.” (Katherine C. Adams – internetworking)
Evaluating Web Information and Design
“(…) methods for critically evaluating the content and design of existing Internet document can also usefully inform the production of new documents.” (George McMurdo – Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Building Taxonomies
Sample Chapter from ‘Unlocking Knowledge Assets’ (Susan Conway & Char Sligar)
Wurman’s Last Waltz at TED12
“A star-studded crowd gathers in Monterey as the annual conference prepares for a major transition.” (Gary A. Bolles – Business 2.0)
Visual Journalism
A Guide for New Media Professionals (Christopher R. Harris & Paul Martin Lester)
The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface
“(…) users will more and more expect to be able to search automated information stores in ways that are comfortable and familiar to them.” (Marcia J. Bates – Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California of LA)
IA/Recon 6/6
Secrets and Messages (Jesse James Garrett)