InfoDesign: Hand-picked since 1997

Talking with Jesse James Garrett

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem: how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend.” (Erin Malone – Boxes and Arrows)

Interviews

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological).” (W3C)

PhotoSemantic Information Architecture

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“As an Information Architect with quite a bit of large scale website IA experience, I wanted to include a section on IA for both discussion and resource purposes.” (Miguel Graça)

Information architecture

XUL Defines New User Interface Options

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI. (Nigel McFarlane – DevX)

Technology

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) design principles for creating accessible Web sites.” (W3C)

Celebrating Holidays and Special Occasions on Websites

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Even small holiday decorations can increase joy of use and make websites feel more current and more connected to users’ lives and physical environment. The key is to commemorate without detracting from your users’ main reasons for visiting the site.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

Usability

Center for Digital Storytelling

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(..) a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.” (About CDS)

Hypertext

Making the Visual Verbal

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Many people who do not consider themselves writers are intimidated by the thought of writing.” (John Paul Caponigro – Communication Arts)

Information design

Promoting Visual Thinking

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Works of art have no productive function in our economy. Art is politically dangerous. Contemporary art is too difficult to understand.” (Wendy Richmond – Communication Arts)

Information design

Shneidermann Demands Computing Renaissance

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“His goal is systems that are usable, universal (…) and useful.” (Usability News)

The Myth of User-Centered Information Architecture

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“One of the first things you learn about information architecture is that your Web site needs to be organized the way users think it should be organized. Unfortunately, this never happens. In fact, it should never happen.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)

Information architecture

Client Centered Design

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Although a Web site development team generally includes a usability expert (…) user centered design is the responsibility of every single member of the team, programmers no less than graphical designers, database wizards no less than usability experts.” (Peter-Paul Koch – Digital Web Magazine)

Metadata and Taxonomies for a More Flexible Information Architecture

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The presentation (…) illustrates how an information architecture based on taxonomies and metadata can be used to make a number of basic Web site and Intranet functions more flexible and dynamic.” (Amy J. Warner – Lexonomy)

Introduction to XFML Concepts

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

XFML is an XML language to share hierarchical faceted metadata. (Peter van Dijck – Evolt)

Metadata

VoiceUI

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

The Art and Science of Voice Dialogue Design (Sam Horodezky)

It’s Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby!

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) 2002 seems to have been a good year for IA.” (Andrew Dillon – ASIS&T Bulletin 9.1)

Information architecture

The Limits of Usability are Challenged Again

Added on 23 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Definitions of usability are part of the problem (…). They not only influence how usability specialists market themselves, but also colour public perception of the profession.” (Louise Ferguson – Usability News)

Usability

Transforming Unstructured Content into Meaningful XML

Added on 23 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Most people who have thought about XML at a high level haven’t thought too much about the problems inherent in converting unstructured content into a meaningful XML format.” (Rizwan Virk – CambridgeDocs)

Technology

Seductive Design for Web Sites

Added on 23 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“We used to think it was impossible to design a web site that successfully supported both information retrieval and browsing. We now believe a site can do both — but only when designers know what their audience is interested in.” (User Interface Engineering)

User experience