J.R.R. Tolkien was an Information Architect
“If you want to master information architecture you need to acquire the type of skills Tolkien exhibits.” (Gerry McGovern)
Flash Critic to Coach Macromedia
“Macromedia plans to announce a partnership (…) with Jakob Nielsen, a leading Web design guru and one of the most prominent critics of the company’s Flash software for Web animation.” (David Becker – c|net news.com)
Unmasking Interfaces: Archeological Moments of Knowledge
“Does knowledge become simply information when cultural techniques turn technological?” (Wolfgang Ernst – The Digital Cultures Project Conference 2002)
Handheld Usability
“(…) take advantage of the resources available here.” (Scott Weiss – Usable Products)
Ergonomics: The Donald Norman Interview
“A ‘cantankerous visionary’ strives to put consumers first in a wireless world.” (John Geirland – The Feature)
Standard Data Vocabularies Unquestionably Harmful
“Adhering to standard vocabularies has recently meant all too often that an item properly labeled and conforming to an expected form is naively accepted as being actually what it purports to be.” (Walter Perry – xml.com)
eXchangable Faceted Metadata Language
“(…) an open XML format to publish and share faceted metadata for websites.” (Peter van Dijck)
Physical and Virtual Space. How to Deal with Their Interaction?
“We are more familiar with physical than with virtual space both as users and as practitioners.” (Paul Drewe – The Journal of Design Research)
Reestablishing the Value of Content
Taxonomic Distress
The Challenge of Developing Effective Taxonomies for Web-facing Businesses (Lane Becker – Adaptive Path)
The Bottom-line of Prototyping and Usability Testing
“How user-centered design techniques can make a cost effective workflow” (guuui.com)
Prodding at the Limits of User-Centered Design
“Ethnography treats people as if they are in a zoo” (Usability News)
The Commercial Feasibility of a Next-Generation User Interface
“Keep productivity and usability the #1 goal of software design.” (Jared White – The Idea Basket)
Using Wireframes
“A wireframe is a visualization tool for presenting the layout of a web page element inventory.” (Strange Systems)
Fifth Advance for Design Summit
Integrating our values, processes, and insights into the business community (July 11-13, 2002 – Las Vegas)
How We Define Information Architecture
“(…) a systematic, question-based process for creating communication products that improve users’ performance.” (Info.Design)
Competitive Usability
“How usability will be the key differentiator of tomorrow’s internet” (guuui.com)
User Engineering
“(…) a discipline for designing user experiences that match users’ expectations.” (IBM/Ease-of-Use)
A Methodology to Verify and Improve an Existing Large-scale Information Architecture
“The information structure and terminology of a Web site is an essential element of its ease of use” (Jianming Dong – IBM/Ease-of-Use 2002 Papers)
In My Experience
“(…) a simple outlet for my (Daniel Kapusta) opinions and thoughts.” (about inmyexperience)