“(…) the Europeans have been implementing mobile and trying to work through a means to access information in the environment and context where the information makes sense. Boy, was I right.” (Thomas VanderWal – InfoCloud Solutions Inc.)

“Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

“(…) excerpt from Mr. Morville’s new book, Ambient Findability – Findability precedes usability in the alphabet and on the web you can’t use what you can’t find.” (A List Apart)

“The real upheaval lies just ahead, as a generation of school kids (and their teachers and librarians) struggle to reconcile traditional notions of education and objectivity and authority with the constructivist web of social facts and collective intelligence where folksonomies flourish and the truth is a virus of many colors. I can hardly wait.” (Peter Morville)

First Chapter of Ambient Findability by Peter Morville – “Findability is the biggest story on the Web today, and its reach will only grow as the tidal waves of channel convergence and ubiquitous computing wash over our shores. We will use the Web to navigate a physical world that sparkles with embedded sensors and geospatial metadata, even as we diminish the need to move our bodies through space. Mobile devices will unite our data streams in an evolving dance of informed consumers seeking collective intelligence and inspiration. And in this ambient economy, findability will be a key source of competitive advantage. Finders, keepers; losers, weepers.” (Peter Morville – findability.org) – congrats with the book and the blog

“Today many users of the Internet are using information-based web sites to try and satisfy their information needs. How well they satisfy these needs (finding relevant information) can often depend upon one common feature – the site’s information architecture.” (Mark Game – HOT! Topics Newsletter) – courtesy of lucdesk

Programme of the Europe’s first information architecture summit – “‘Building our community’ is the theme of this inaugural European Summit. No, we are not talking about the EU. We are talking about our professional community – information architects and other people involved in structuring information for electronic media. And we want to see YOU!” (ASIS&T 2005 Euro IA)

“When you start a site map, even as a paper sketch, take that opportunity to immediately start putting ID numbers on pages. Don’t wait until later. Having the IDs then gives you a baseline vocabulary to use in any subsequent docs, and you’re free to decide on ‘friendly” names later. It can help you avoid a lot of confusion later.” (Joshua Kaufman – Digital Web Magazine)

“Who in the academic community is doing the leading research and inquiry into IA issues? Who are the big thinkers?” (IAwiki)

“(…) a card sorting application for Mac OS X. It allows you to easily define a new card sorting problem, perform several sessions with multiple participants, and finally analyze the results (using multiple criteria) and generate printable reports.” (iPragma) – courtesy of theotherblog

“Andrew Dillon declared in his closing keynote speech at the Montreal IA Summit (2005) that IA was entering its second phase. IAs are seeing more and more job opportunities as well as more professional recognition, and the field itself seems to be progressing. Not so in Germany. Here, IA is barely on the map.” (James Kalbach – Boxes and Arrows)

“(…) the number of first-time attendees was staggeringly high. From a show of hands on the opening day it appeared as if they were in the majority. Nothing wrong with this situation you might say, but the number of new attendees was high last year too, so it would appear that repeat attendance is not the norm.” (Andrew Dillon – ASIS&T Bulletin 31.5) – courtesy of peterboersma

“Document, Document, Document: I try to document my work as much as possible in order to have a running record of my day. This includes to-do lists, dates and times of meetings with key outcomes, design sketches… everythings.” (Joshua Kaufman – Digital Web Magazine)

The Survey Results: “This summary (based on data from 129 respondents) presents the key topics in ranked order from most important to least important.
1. Information Design (…) 34. Transformational Living” (ASIS&T 2006 Information Architecture Summit) – courtesy of eleganthack

“A diagram that helps information architects and other designers make their enterprise’s content easier to find regardless of which department maintains it. The goal is to integrate content from across departmental ‘silos’ in ways that make sense to users.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

“IA in Europe (and Germany) in general isn’t doing that well. People are frustrated with clients who don’t know what IA is, and there doesn’t seem to be much innovation. Imagine my surprise when I visited Spain and found a small but thriving IA community!” (Peter van Dijck)

“This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.” (Iain Barker – Step Two Designs)

Discussion list on the similarities and differences of information architectures in the context of global, regional and local cultures, languages, and value systems. (Global-ia Archives)

“Card sorting won’t always give you the answer – it may just give you more questions. This is where the analysis comes in.” (Mark Boulton – Information Design) – courtesy of mark bernstein

“Perhaps even more worrying, evidence of poor usability gained by interacting with the design did not initially change the beliefs of these users about the application’s quality.” (Andrew Dillon – ASIS&T Bulletin April/May 2005)