Amy Lee’s IA Summit 2003 Notes
“Hierarchy isn’t the answer and search is even worse. Search is the last resort of a reader. Context is all that matters.” (Amy Lee – curiousLee)
All posts from
March 2003
Wrapping Up Portland
“Portland was interesting. (…) there was a palpable lack of international attendance, participation, and perspective.” (Anne Galloway – Purse Lip Square Jaw) – courtesy of iaslash
Navigation and Hypertext
“Navigation as design driver – it’s the wrong driver.” (Peter Merholz)
Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents
This article attempts to document a few whole-document design patterns that have proven themselves in the field.” (Kyle Downey – XML.com
Panel on Wayfinding and Navigation in Digital Spaces at the IA Summit 2003
Mark Bernstein’s, Andrew Dillon’s, and Susan Campbell’s position statements
(Rashmi Sinha – courtesy of vanderwal
First Impressions of IA Summit 2003
“Only 12 European visitors and more than 225 American and Canadian visitors join the conference. This really amazes me.” (Lieke van der Meer – Informaat)
Model of Attraction Presentation
“This presentation of the Model of Attraction was given at the ASIS IA Summit in Portland, Oregon (…) The HTML outline version will be available shortly.” (Thomas vanderWal)
Usability Myths Need Reality Checks
“Not so very long ago, it was agreed that five to eight users was enough for a good usability test. Somehow, this idea achieved mythic status. We believed it. We preached it to everyone who would listen. It survived in areas where it had been disproved, and was introduced into new situations where it didn’t even apply.” (Will Schroeder – User Interface Engineering) – courtesy of guuui
IA Summit 2003
“(…) again it was a wonderful affair filled with friends, interesting presentations, and a bit of the ol’ controversy.” (Victor Lombardi – noise between stations)
Wee Report on the IA Summit
“Spirits were definitely higher than the past two years.” (Louis Rosenfeld)
Managing the Implementation of an Enterprise-Wide Information Architecture
“In 1994, a team of faculty and staff at the University of Pittsburgh completed the design of an enterprise-wide information architecture and framework for engaging the University in business process reengineering. The architecture provides the blueprint for developing an integrated set of information services, processes, and technologies. It enables significant efficiencies in business and service processes, and facilitates informed decisions concerning information technology expenditures and acquisitions.” (Nicholas C. Laudato and Dennis J. DeSantis – University of Pittsburg) courtesy of heyblog
Designers in Health Network
Information Design Plus: April 25, 2003 – Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (DIHNet) – courtesy of brian parkinson
All Those Opposed: Making The Case for User Experience in a Budget-Conscious Climate
“Using a Web site for the first time is an awful lot like going on a first date. It’s a one-on-one interaction, and it doesn’t always go as planned.” (Jesse James Garrett – New Architect) – courtesy of iaslash
The Semantic Web: More than a Vision 
“The technology underlying the web is unprecedented and affords us new opportunities to turn segments of the growing mass of electronic information into new intelligence for both humans and computers.” (ASIS&T Bulletin April/May 2003)
The Processed Book
“The ‘processed book’ is about content, not technology, and contrasts with the ‘primal book’; the latter is the book we all know and revere: written by a single author and viewed as the embodiment of the thought of a single individual.” (Joseph J. Esposito – First Monday 8.3)
Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects
“The term Learning Object, first popularized by Wayne Hodgins in 1994 when he named the CedMA working group ‘Learning Architectures, APIs and Learning Objects’, has become the Holy Grail of content creation and aggregation in the computer-mediated learning field.” (Pithamber R. Polsani – Journal of Digital Information 3.4)
IA Summit Blog
“Adam and I have set this up so y’all can blog the IA Summit.” (Joshua Ellis)
BookBlog
“The Writing of a Book on Information Architecture” (Peter VanDijck)
A Metadata Primer
“What is missing is information about the information – that is, labeling, cataloging and descriptive information – that enables a computer to properly process and search the content elements. This information about information is known as metadata.” (Ann Rockley – CMS Watch) – courtesy of elearningpost
Design and Emotion
“Research in this area investigates what critical factors of human-product interaction contribute to an emotional experience.” (ID-Studiolab IO TU Delft) – courtesy of freegorifero
