InfoDesign: Hand-picked since 1997

Information Architecture: Carrying out a Classification Situation Analysis

Added on 9 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Classification design should follow the ‘geniuses steal, beggars borrow’ rule. Your job is not to come up with some innovative way to classify your content. It is to find a classification that works.” (Gerry McGovern)

Information architecture

The Humane Environment

Added on 9 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) a few of Raskin’s ideas have been turned into usable, open-source, open-ended software so that you can try them for yourself.” (Jef Raskin – SourceForge.net)

Being User-Centered When Implementing a UCD Process

Added on 9 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The goal of user-centered design focuses on the actual users of the product, but the users of a process are the members of the product development group itself.” (Whitney Quesenbery)

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the User Interface

Added on 9 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Users are becoming increasingly aware that they need more efficient ways to find the information they need.” (Whitney Quesenbery)

Flash Design

Added on 6 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

A guide to usability and design issues for the Flash developer (Anthony T. Dunn)

Usability

Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design

Added on 6 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The concise text and interactive exercises provide an unparalleled online tutorial and the successful content management makes it beautifully usable.” (Communication Arts Interactive Annual 8)

Information design

Search Interfaces

Added on 6 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“This investigation is about the ordering and structure of the search fields themselves, not the results, which have been the topic of much discussion already.” (Liz Danzico)

Signs of the Times

Added on 5 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“As an information designer, Mijksenaar’s specialty is taming chaos.” (Patricia Leigh Brown – The Age)

Information design

XML and the Second-Generation Web

Added on 5 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The combination of hypertext and a global Internet started a revolution. A new ingredient, XML, is poised to finish the job.” (Jon Bosak & Tim Bray – Scientific American)

Technology

Demystifying Metadata

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Creating metadata is really just techspeak for cataloging.” (Marty Lucas – Mappa Mundi)

Metadata

Interaction Design and Agile Methods

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) design-intensive approaches have at least paid lip service to the idea that users — to the extent it was feasible to inject them into the design process — could improve the outcome.” (Jon Udell – O’Reilly Network)

Interaction design

Bridging The Gap With Requirements Definition

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“One effective method is to conduct a requirements definition phase before developing a new product.” (Ryan Olshavsky – Cooper Newsletter)

Information design

Turning Requirements Into Product Definition

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) to work from a form and behavior specification that provides a final and coherent description of what the product is and how it should work.” (Jonathan Korman – Cooper Newsletter)

Information design

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear.” (Jeffrey Zeldman – Digital Web Magazine)

Information design

Information Design

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“From Ricci Street, an online MBA community at Medaille College, Buffalo, pioneering new media in the 21st century.” (Douglas Anderson – Gizmos, Inc.)

Information design

Information Design: A Dynamic and Rapidly Growing Field

Added on 4 September 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Concerned with issues and techniques in the design and communication of messages, Information Design has been greatly impacted by the rise of electonic media.” (Coventry School of Art and Design, UK)