Information Architecture is not Usability
“The distinction between information architecture and usability may seem like semantics, but there are significant differences between the two disciplines.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)
Death of a Meta Tag
“In my opinion, the meta keywords tag is dead, dead, dead.” (Danny Sullivan – ClickZ)
A Visit with a Digital Architect
“Matt Jones is an information architect who has been building spaces for news online since 1995.” (Rusty Foster – Online Journalism Review)
Information Architecture for Everyone
“Information Architecture is the process of creating as structure for a body of information or content. In our case, this structure is specific to the production of a web site.” (D. Keith Robinson – Evolt)
Interface Design as a Life or Death Proposition
“(…) recent initiatives have instituted a more prescriptive, design-focused procedure encouraging extensive user research at the beginning of the development process.” (Doug LeMoine – Cooper)
Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data
“The usefulness of personas in defining interactive product has become more widely accepted in the last few years (…)” (Kim Goodwin – Cooper)
Thoughts on AIfIA and Information Architecture
“The launch of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, has proven a wellspring for discussions on the emerging profession and discipline of information architecture.” (Peter Merholz)
Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive Systems
“Web design is under attack. Our enemy is a dangerous meme known as reductionism.” (Peter Morville – New Architect)
Connectedland
“The always-connected artifacts we carry with us are slowly eroding the idea that we should know all the information we need to complete a task.” (Fabio Sergio – freegorifero)
The Definition of Information Architecture
“(…) a few thousand professional information architects prove their value every day in the trenches by contributing to the design of more useful, usable, and desirable systems and products.” (Peter Morville – Semantic Studios)
An Interview with Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Usability Expert
“Trust is a huge problem. Users are justifiably very cynical about their privacy and about the extent to which they can trust Web sites.” (Meryl K. Evans and Nick Finck – Digital Web Magazine)
Information Design: The Design and Evaluation of Signs and Printed Material
Table of Contents (Harm Zwaga and Ronald Easterby eds. 1984)
Flash Satay
Embedding Flash while supporting standards (Drew McLellan – A List Apart)
Introducing Interaction Design
“(…) the first of a twelve-article, twelve-month series devoted to the field of interaction design.” (Bob Baxley – Boxes and Arrows)
Web Ontology Language (OWL) – Guide Version 1.0
“(…) to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications.” (W3C)
Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question
“The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level of a cross-company intranet usability study. The return on investment? One thousand percent or more.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Spanking Jakob Nielsen
“Jakob Nielsen makes some fantastic claims about intranet usability that must be weighed against other business needs and constraints.” (John Rhodes – WebWord)
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
Complete styles and guidelines for publishing a variety of technical publications. (Microsoft)
Flash MX Accessibility Issues
“When usability expert Jacob Neilson proclaimed Flash was 99 percent bad, he was right on at least one account: accessibility.” (Jason M. Perry – O’Reilly Network)
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News
“The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we’ve come to expect from Web pages.” (Eric A. Meyer – DevEdge)