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January 2003

Usability Requirements: How to Specify, Test and Report Usability

Added on 8 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“(…) a guide for how to specify, test and report usability requirements as part of a contractual relationship between a supplier and acquirer.” (The PRUE Project) – courtesy of guuui

Usability

Five Tips to Reduce Knowledge Loss

Added on 8 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“In today’s job market, organizations have come to realize the impact of knowledge Loss. More and more of their best employees leave every day. Even when new people and their knowledge are brought in, chances are that those new people will leave within four years.” (Brian Frank – KMPro) – courtesy of elearningpost

Information design

Interface Gets The Point

Added on 8 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Getting computers to understand humans the way humans understand humans is a tremendous challenge.” (Technology Research News) – courtesy of lucdesk

Prognostication Digitalis

Added on 7 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“2002 was the year the rubber hit the road.” (Chris tina Wodtke – Boxes and Arrows)

Information architecture

Faceted Approach to Web Redesign

Added on 7 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“A site’s information architecture is not usually the first thing that comes to the minds of web developers. Most of the time it is only after a site is built that the deficiencies are noted and solutions are sought. At that point an assessment of the information architecture becomes a task that should be considered.” (Barbara Gulten & Jonathan Broad – IAWiki)

Metadata

Merging Spaces: From Digital Information Architecture to Narrative Imagination

Added on 7 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

Peter Anders in conversation with Sabine Breitsameter (AudioHyperspac e)

Interviews

Predictions for 2003

Added on 6 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Information architecture will grow in importance. More organizations will recognize that organizing information efficiently is one of the key challenges they face.” (Gerry McGovern)

Information architecture

Usability Testing: Myths, Misconceptions and Misuses

Added on 6 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“In this article, I identify and try to straighten out some common misconceptions about usability testing.” (Richard F. Dillon – HOT Lab, Carleton University) – courtesy of elearningpost

Usability

Wu

Added on 6 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Wu is a pattern language for designing and building usable web sites.” (Ian Graham et al.) – courtesy of iawiki

Usability

Mapping Web Sites

Added on 6 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

Chapter 4: Web Site Planning Diagrams (Paul Kahn – Kahn & Associates)

Information architecture

IDblog: an information design blog

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“IDblog is Beth Mazur tilting at power law windmills. A little bit Internet, a little bit technology, a little bit society, and a lot about designing useful information products.” (Beth Mazur)

Weblogs

A Wandering Tread: Exploring Hyperfiction

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Hyperfiction is a narrative form that makes use of the characteristics of the Internet to tell a story.” (Carolien van den Bos) – courtesy of hypertextkitchen

Hypertext

IA: Educating Information Architecture

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

Chapter from ‘Information Architecture: an Emerging 21nd Century Profession’ (Earl Morrogh) – courtesy of iaslash

Information architecture

Business-Centered Design: The Fusion of Usability and Marketing

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“In traditional user-centred design, focus is on users’ needs and their use of the product, while marketing is left to the marketing department. On the web, usability and marketing go hand in hand.” (Henrik Olsen – guuui)

Faceted Metadata Search and Browse

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Metadata is information about information: more precisely, it’s structured information about resources.” (Search Tools)

Metadata

The History of Visualization

Added on 3 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The history of visualisation is that of the search for new artefacts to amplify the ability to know; it’s the history of writing and of maps, the history of knowledge.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

InfoViz

Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

Added on 2 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“In this thought-provoking book based on nine years of research, B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, reveals how Web sites, software applications and mobile devices can be used to change people’s attitudes and behavior.” (B.J. Fogg – ACM Ubiquity)

Information design

The Glass Wall: BBCi Design Process Document

Added on 2 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“(…) here is a document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage. The research methods and synthesis they went through is pretty interesting, and hopefully some of the process, artifacts and outcomes documented might be useful for web design practitioners.” (Matt Jones)

Multimodality: The Next Wave of Mobile Interaction

Added on 1 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Multimodality is new technology that hopes to enhance the mobile user experience by enabling network operators to combine speech, touch and onscreen displays for intuitive and powerful mobile applications.” (James Colby – Speech Technology Magazine) – courtesy of nooface

Interaction design

Archiving Experience Design

Added on 1 January 2003 Peter Bogaards

A Virtual Roundtable Discussion (AIGA Loop 6)

User experience