A Visit with a Digital Architect
“Matt Jones is an information architect who has been building spaces for news online since 1995.” (Rusty Foster – Online Journalism Review)
All posts from
November 2002
Information Architecture for Everyone
“Information Architecture is the process of creating as structure for a body of information or content. In our case, this structure is specific to the production of a web site.” (D. Keith Robinson – Evolt)
Interface Design as a Life or Death Proposition
“(…) recent initiatives have instituted a more prescriptive, design-focused procedure encouraging extensive user research at the beginning of the development process.” (Doug LeMoine – Cooper)
Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data
“The usefulness of personas in defining interactive product has become more widely accepted in the last few years (…)” (Kim Goodwin – Cooper)
Thoughts on AIfIA and Information Architecture
“The launch of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, has proven a wellspring for discussions on the emerging profession and discipline of information architecture.” (Peter Merholz)
Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive Systems
“Web design is under attack. Our enemy is a dangerous meme known as reductionism.” (Peter Morville – New Architect)
Connectedland
“The always-connected artifacts we carry with us are slowly eroding the idea that we should know all the information we need to complete a task.” (Fabio Sergio – freegorifero)
The Definition of Information Architecture
“(…) a few thousand professional information architects prove their value every day in the trenches by contributing to the design of more useful, usable, and desirable systems and products.” (Peter Morville – Semantic Studios)
An Interview with Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Usability Expert
“Trust is a huge problem. Users are justifiably very cynical about their privacy and about the extent to which they can trust Web sites.” (Meryl K. Evans and Nick Finck – Digital Web Magazine)
Information Design: The Design and Evaluation of Signs and Printed Material
Table of Contents (Harm Zwaga and Ronald Easterby eds. 1984)
Flash Satay
Embedding Flash while supporting standards (Drew McLellan – A List Apart)
Introducing Interaction Design
“(…) the first of a twelve-article, twelve-month series devoted to the field of interaction design.” (Bob Baxley – Boxes and Arrows)
Web Ontology Language (OWL) – Guide Version 1.0
“(…) to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications.” (W3C)
Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question
“The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level of a cross-company intranet usability study. The return on investment? One thousand percent or more.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Spanking Jakob Nielsen
“Jakob Nielsen makes some fantastic claims about intranet usability that must be weighed against other business needs and constraints.” (John Rhodes – WebWord)
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
Complete styles and guidelines for publishing a variety of technical publications. (Microsoft)
Flash MX Accessibility Issues
“When usability expert Jacob Neilson proclaimed Flash was 99 percent bad, he was right on at least one account: accessibility.” (Jason M. Perry – O’Reilly Network)
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News
“The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we’ve come to expect from Web pages.” (Eric A. Meyer – DevEdge)
Information Architecture Overload
“I was stunned at the number of new books in these fields. There were over 20 new titles on the book shelf about information architecture, usability, interface design, web usability, flash usability, and accessibility.” (David Crow)
When Good Interfaces Go Crufty
“(…) over the past 20 years, I’ve noticed that cruft has been appearing in computer interfaces. And few people are trying to fix it.” (Matthew Thomas)