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August 2002

Book Review of ‘Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition’

Added on 29 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) this book can teach almost anyone the beginnings of what they need to know about how to define a web site’s structure to facilitate information retrieval.” (James McNally – Digital Web Magazine)

Information architecture

Luke Wroblewski On The Pursuit of Simplicity

Added on 29 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) why is the process of making things easy so challenging, and what can we do not to stray from the path to simplicity?” (Luke Wroblewski – Design Interact)

Usability

What Is ‘Usable’ e-Learning?

Added on 28 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) most major producers of e-learning are not doing substantial usability testing, probably because most major purchasers and consumers of e-learning have no way of evaluating the degree to which a course is usable.” (Michael Feldstein – eLearn Magazine)

Usability

Doors of Perceptions 7: Flow

Added on 28 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

The design challenge of pervasive computing (Nov. 14-16, 2002 – Amsterdam NL)

Events

Tom Moran on Everyday Adaptive Design

Added on 28 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The final plenary session at DIS2002, by Tom Moran, was a hugely important presentation (…)” (Dan Hill – cityofsound/blog)

Adaptation

Get ROI From Design

Added on 28 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) some examples on how to measure ROI on design investments and ways to prioritize fixes.” (A Forrester Report 2001)

User experience

Flow: The Optimal Experience

Added on 28 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.” (Michael Cole)

User experience

Tablet PCs Will Provide New User Interfaces

Added on 27 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Presuming that Microsoft does a good job at developing and integrating the handwriting recognition and voice technologies, we believe these new interfaces will help drive the emergence of a viable tablet form-factor market.” (IT insights from Meta Group – IT World.com)

Shall We Dance?

Added on 27 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

Ten Lessons Learned from Netscape’s Flirtation with Open Source UI Development (Peter Trudelle – CHI2002)

The indie life: Talking with Louis Rosenfeld

Added on 27 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“We often see interaction design and IA compared. Let’s acknowledge once and for all that information architecture is the more difficult of the two” (Paul Nattress – Boxes and Arrows)

Interviews

International Conference: InfoDesign ed 2002

Added on 26 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

Sept. 16-17, 2002 – University of Reading, UK (International Institute for Information Design)

Events

Smarter Content Publishing

Added on 26 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

Building a semantic website to increase the efficiency and usability of publishing systems (Victor Lombardi – Digital Web Magazine)

Information design

Usability Professionals: Stay Prepared for Business Waves

Added on 26 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) how you can prepare for the uncertainties of the waves of the current work environment, both how to ride the wave and how to handle it if you fall off your surfboard.” (Anne M. Pauker – The UPA Voice)

Usability

Information Design Journal 1979-2001: Table of Contents

Added on 23 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

Building a knowledge-base for the practice of Information Design (Karel van der Waarde – IDJ)

Information design

Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?

Added on 23 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

Introduction to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Issue on Information Architecture (Andrew Dillon – JASIST 53.10)

Information architecture

Why XP and UX Have Something in Common

Added on 22 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“It’s true your initial design may not be perfect the first time, which is why UX works best when you take an iterative approach – and that’s where things like card sorting exercises, paper prototyping, etc are just as necessary as the programming prototypes.” (George Olsen – Usability News)

User experience

Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B!

Added on 22 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) how topic maps can be used to help solve interoperability problems between XML B2B vocabularies.” (Marc de Graauw – XML.com)

Technology

Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. Powazek

Added on 22 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“I advise clients to never call their sites ‘communities’.” (Christine Perfetti – User Interface 7 East)

Interviews

IAnything Goes: The Age of Information Architecture

Added on 22 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“This month’s issue of Digital Web focuses entirely on information architecture, and this is the first monthly column titled “IAnything Goes” which will address information architecture on its own.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)

Information architecture

GNOME: Human Interface Guidelines

Added on 22 August 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) how to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole. It is written for interface designers, graphic artists and software developers who will be creating software for the GNOME environment.” (GNOME Developer’s Site)