The Psychology of Navigation
“That’s why I don’t often use the phrase ‘information architect’ among the uninitiated. It causes too much trouble.” (Jesse James Garrett – Digital Web Magazine)
All posts from
December 2002
Persuasive Navigation
“Persuasive navigation is navigation that persuades a user to do something.” (Jeff Last – Digital Web Magazine)
Navigation Complex
“(…) six forms of navigation – three main types and three subtypes.” (Peter Paul Koch – Digital Web Magazine)
Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive Systems
“(…) the complexity of our sites overwhelmed us.” (Peter Morville – New Architect)
What Is A Controlled Vocabulary?
“A controlled vocabulary is a way to insert an interpretive layer of semantics between the term entered by the user and the underlying database to better represent the original intention of the terms of the user.” (Karl Fast et al. – Boxes and Arrows)
Handheld for Doctors
“A massive 28% of a UK doctor’s time is spent dealing with paper. This book will show you why and how handheld computers can help you reduce this time, and how to use the technology without waiting for the IT department.” (Mohammad Al-Ubaydli)
Beyond ‘Couch Potatoes’: From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors
“The fundamental challenge for computational media is to contribute to the invention and design of cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities.” (Gerhard Fisher – First Monday 7.12)
iHotelier: Demonstrating the Potential of Flash for Web App Design
“Flash’s real potential to get past some hard problems makes it something we should seriously investigate for future application development.” (Christine Perfetti – User Interface Engineering)
Personas Used as Means of Motivating Design Teams
“Lovely personas with a full back story are dropped in cupboard and ignored.” (Ann Light – Usability News)
Human Environment Mission Statement
“To make computer technology available to a wider audience than has been possible by radically and rationally improving its usability.” (Jeff Raskin)
Proposal for an IA Curriculum
“The AIfIA Education Curriculum Initiative will create a framework which instructors will use to create information architecture programs, courses, and syllabi for courses.” (Victor Lombardi – Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture)
UsabilityNet
A project funded by the European Union to promote usability and user-centered design (About UsabilityNet)
Cognitive Models for Web Design: Information Foraging Theory Applied
“Information foraging theory gives those researching user interaction with Web sites a way to examine user goals, their decision making processes and adaptations to the information access system environment.” (Tanya Rabourn – Pixelcharmer)
Steve Krug Interview
“If you know people are going to be coming to your site who you can’t sell or ship to, why wouldn’t you let them know that as soon as possible–at the very least, when they put something in a shopping cart.” (Marc A. Garrett – since1968)
An interview with Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld, Information Architects
“An information architect must learn about business goals and context, content and services, and user needs and behavior; and then work with colleagues to transform this balanced understanding of the information ecology into the design of organization, labeling, and navigation systems that provide a solid but flexible foundation for the user experience.” (Meryl K. Evans – Digital Web Magazine)
Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me (…)
An excerpt from ‘Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web’ (Christina Wodtke – Digital Web Magazine)
Web Design Guru Sees Flash Challenges
“Nielsen credited Macromedia (…) for taking usability seriously and paying attention to such issues while Flash is still relatively young.” (David Becker – C|Net News)
Can You Purchase Wisdom?
“The problem was one of design — learning how to use this system was quite difficult, and often ran contrary to how people currently worked.” (Peter Merholz)
All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies
“Information architects are fascinated with faceted classification and its application to information architecture problems. However, facets remain difficult to understand and there are few options for learning about them.” (Karl Fast et al. – Boxes and Arrows)
Ramana Rao’s Information Flow
“Ranganathan’s objection to the prevailing classification systems, such as Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification, was that they tried to enumerate all possible subjects and provide preconceived pigeonholes to accommodate all documents.” (Ramana Rao)