“As a ‘big-IA’ advocate, I have always believed usability was part of IA anyhow. ‘Little IA’ is just too small to justify the use of the A-word in my world.” (Andrew Dillon – ASIS&T Bulletin 31.1)

“The contributors to this highly original collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (often metaphorical) intersection of the preparation of meals and the production of space.” – Table of Content & Sample chapters (MIT Press)

“Future trend: The numbers of both in-house and agency IAs will decline; this drop will be partially countered by growth in self-employed consultants.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

“(…) a summary of the current tools in no particuar order. I have put card details into those that work, but haven’t put any results in yet.” (DonnaM)

“Alexander is presenting his basis for the New Paradigm in Architecture at the same time as Eisenman presents his competing, diametrically opposed, deconstructivist claim for such a Paradigm. The importance of the debate has been widely recognised.” (Katarxis 3) – courtesy of designobserver

“It was hard work. When it comes to information architecture research, the knowledge environment is highly fragmented. But I was able to extract a few gems and gain some new insights. So, for all those information architects who didn’t spend their summer in a research library, here’s a brief summary.” (Peter Morville – Semantic Studios)

Presentations by Peter Morville of Semantic Studios – “Information Architecture is an intensive 2-day conference about how to design and organise information systems that enable better search, navigation, and collaboration within organisations.” (Information Today)

“(…) these search heuristics are really geared to semi-structured text, not data; looking for ideas and concepts is a different undertaking than hunting for facts and figures (more on why they’re different).” (Louis Rosenfeld – Bloug)

“To successfully communicate the characteristics of an information space, I needed an approach for creating easily understood diagrams. To be useful to my audience, the diagrams must communicate the ‘big picture’ of the website to stakeholders, while providing enough detail to be useful for the development team.” (Jason Withrow – Boxes and Arrows)

A collection of references regarding Enterprise Information Architecture. (Gene Smith – Atomiq) – courtesy of iaslash

“Every information architect should always have a set of favorite questions in their back pocket; they really do come in handy.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

“(…) I’m posting a bit of our conversation about applying and interviewing for IA jobs here. These ideas apply mainly to people who are sending a resumé out blindly. That is to say, without a word of mouth recommendation.” (Michael Angeles – urlgreyhot)

“So just as I recommend my clients do, I’m undertaking an exploration of how the site is currently failing to meet my goals for it, and all those ways in which it might reach, exceed, or outright demolish those goals in the next version.” (Adam Greenfield – v-2.org)

“(…) the 80/20 Rule: we pick a small set of locales that require minimal translation, are reasonably easy to design, are owned by people who want to cooperate with our efforts, and provide the business with most bang for its buck.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

“Intelligence is moving to the edges, flowing through networked computers, wireless devices, empowered users and distributed teams. Ideas spread like wildfire. Innovations emerge from uncharted borderlands. Information is in the air, literally. We’re exploring a new world called cyberspace, and we’re navigating without a map.” (Peter Morville – Digital Web Magazine)

“With apologies for the delay, here are links to the presentation Christina Wodtke and I delivered at the webvisions 2004 conference this past Friday in Portland, Oregon.” (Nate Koechley – natek)

“As the second year of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture comes to a close, we can look back to see an organization that has grown beyond our early expectations. Building on the accomplishments of our first year, our membership has grown 37% in the past year, to over 560 people from over 40 countries. We also continued to build more services and events to promote information architecture (IA) and educate practitioners.” (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture)

“Testing ever-more users in card sorting has diminishing returns, but you should still use three times more participants than you would in traditional usability tests.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

“But why should an information architect care about requirements when it’s not his or her job to collect or create them? It comes down to simple math: it’s been my experience that a blurry definition of what a project needs to accomplish leads to a lot of extra work for the IA. So much extra work, in fact, that revisions end up taking much more effort than helping the team nail down useful requirements earlier in the process.” (Dan Willis – Boxes and Arrows)

“The paradigm shift, however, will be the least of Google’s problems. With its search engine advertising practices under constant scrutiny, Google faces myriad new issues by attaching targeted advertisements to emails, potentially a gross invasion of privacy. At the same time, the advertisements for mandolin dealers and instructors that come attached to posts to the mandolin mailing list are almost as valuable as the posts themselves.” (Dan Brown – Boxes and Arrows)