Search through all 7402 posts
“Let’s explore some helpful approaches to creating a meaningful, successful homepage.”
(Georgy Cohen a.k.a. @radiofreegeorgy)
“My work involves helping people to understand how to best plan circumstances in which users are engaged and satisfied with their experience. Yet, I do not call myself a user experience designer.”
(Abby Covert a.k.a. @Abby_the_IA ~ NEW Boxes and Arrows)
“Most of or clients and colleagues perceive information architecture in a way that resembles either a classic or a contemporary view.”
(Nathaniel Davis a.k.a. @iatheory ~ UXmatters)
“Qualitative journal evaluation cumulates content descriptions of single articles. Articles are either represented by author–generated keywords, professionally indexed subject headings, automatically extracted terms or, as recently introduced, by reader–generated tags as used in social bookmarking systems. The study presented here shows that different types of keywords each reflect a different perspective on documents and that tags can be used in journal evaluation to represent a reader–specific view. After providing a broad theoretical background and literature review, methods for extensive automatic term cleaning and calculation of term overlaps are introduced. The efficiency of tags and other metadata for journal content description is illustrated for one particular journal.”
(Stefanie Haustein and Isabella Peters ~ First Monday, Volume 17, Number 11)
“It is your mission to get your content out, on whichever platform, in whichever format your audience wants to consume it. Your users get to decide how, when, and where they want to read your content. It is your challenge and your responsibility to deliver a good experience to them.”
(Karen McGrane a.k.a. @karenmcgrane ~ A List Apart)
“If modeling is the act of establishing congruence between the elements and entailment structures of two systems, the object and its model, complexity is simply what belies modeling. Behavior in a simple model (and hence in a simple system) can always be correctly predicted: not so in complex systems.”
“Mobile devices are clearly here to stay, and along with them come a whole host of new constraints (and opportunities) for our designs. Let’s take a look at how we might update our approach.”
(Elaine McVicar a.k.a. @ElaineMcVicar ~ UX Booth)
“Information Architects work to create usable content structures out of complex sets of information. They do this using plenty of user-centered design methods: usability tests, persona research and creation, and user flow diagrams (to name only a few). That said, it still seems that UX design is in vogue. (…) UX builds on the foundation that IA provides, aiming to take that experience to the next level, both creatively and emotionally. This is the outstanding difference that defines how the apps, sites, and products of today are designed as opposed to those of yesterday.”
(Darren Northcott a.k.a. @darrennorthcott ~ UX Booth)
Q&A with Richard Saul Wurman ~ “At a sprightly 77 years, Mr Wurman is the author of scores of books on technology and design, and is credited with having coined the term “information architect”. During the interview, he was true to his eccentric, irascible self, which has inspried many to his causes. “We can’t make use of success or failure from one place or another because we have no common language,” he says metaphorically. “We also have no common language in medicine. We have very few common languages,” he says. “You need common filters. In all this big data, you need filters, because often innovation comes from this filter, because you can see a pattern. And I’m interested in those patterns.””
“The ease and fluency with which designers and clients alike can move into and around the centered set of practices and concepts of UXD brings with it a marvelous opportunity to re-define a bounded set for the remnant of cats for whom the bucket of design is interesting but not the central thing drawing one in, and for which the place of beginning isn’t end users and designing their experiences.”
(Dan Klyn a.k.a. @danklyn ~ Wildly Appropriate)
“(…) the notion that customers don’t care about the quality of content is bunk. People do care and content quality does reflect on the overall perception of the product and its creator.”
(Val Swisher a.k.a. @contentrulesinc ~ Content Rules)
“The intention of this article has been to highlight some of our thoughts on creating pervasive information architectures. Our goal has always been to try to develop a practical framework that can be used early on in a design process to help us visualise the information space that we are so commonly being asked to design for nowadays.”
(Jon Fisher a.k.a. @ergonjon ~ Humanizing Technology Blog) ~ courtesy of petermorville
“Regardless of how you organize the content, the larger point is this: giving users a table of contents does much more than simply provide users with a means of navigating the content. The table of contents expresses the hierarchical relationships of your content, and by so doing gives users a sense of your content’s overall story and structure. Even if users can’t find the answer to their question by navigating the table of contents, they can find other meaning in browsing and perusing the structure of your content.”
Notes from Seth Earley’s Confab Workshop ~ “(…) your table of contents, which somewhat expresses the hierarchy, order, and relationships within your information, helps the reader understand at a glance the whole of the information. Even if the user doesn’t navigate his or her way through this sometimes maze-like TOC structure, not having the table of contents at all makes users uneasy. If you replace that table of contents with another sort of organization, something that doesn’t express the semantic relationships of the information components, your users may feel lost.”
“We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift from unstructured content to structured content. It is unsustainable to continually unpick unstructured content, at the last mile, across our broadcast, print and digital channels. This shift is making us revisit the way we capture, structure and store content in fundamental ways. Content modeling is one of those. These pages outline the role of content modeling as a effective communication tool for structuring content.”
(Cleve Gibbon a.k.a. @cleveg)
“Information architecture relates to science as its models draw on insights and theories of cognition. And its models relate to art as they aim to create a meaningful experience. Both aspects are important. Only if IA models manage to blend science and art can they touch the head and the heart.”
(Kai Weber a.k.a. @techwriterkai ~ Kai’s Tech Writing Blog)
“(…) the practice of information architecture has confronted the need to solve the effects of information overload from its very beginning. It did not begin as a struggle for better user experiences, site planning, usability, or budgets. Information architecture arrived as a practice specifically to address the challenges that information abundance brought on within the context of the Internet. This is the seemingly narrow scope of information architecture through which the classic IA perspective survives.”
(Nathaniel Davis a.k.a. @iatheory ~ UXmatters)
“It’s been seven years since I took that first step into IA, and, sadly, it seems that the practice of understanding and prioritizing information before designing the interface has been abandoned. And because of that, we are facing a huge problem in the world of UX, which is, simply put, that we are devolving.”
(Lis Hubert a.k.a. @lishubert ~ UX Magazine)
“This article is about the tiniest of details that goes into creating the main centerpiece of your digital product – the construction of the elements of your navigation. This is the most important aid you can possibly give to your users as they are constantly seeking a reason to walk out on you.”
(Petter Silfver a.k.a. @psilfver ~ Smashing Magazine)
“I wrote a piece a while back that there was a “war” of sorts going on between (among?) information achitects (who frequently came out of the library science, writing, or HCI fields), usability experts, and “designers,” and by that, I mean makers of pretty pictures and high concepts (frequently designers who came out of a classic design-for-print-ads field). Judging by the posts I’ve seen on this forum, the job listings (and requirements) in the general field, and, oddly enough, feedback I’ve gotten from users, “information architects” have lost the field and retired – IMHO to the detriment of the discipline. (And I’m talking here about websites and web apps, kiosks, smart phones, etc., not hand-held devices and products or things like menu structuring for DVD players or car audio systems.)”
followers
298,529 feed subscribers
"Sharing knowledge is better than having it."