Principia Cybernetica Web

Added on 11 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“(…) to develop a complete philosophy or “world-view”, based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies.” (Editorial Board: Turchin, Joslyn, Heylighen, Bollen)

• Metadata

Information Society and Cyberculture

Added on 10 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

From one of the world’s first university based digital points-of-publication (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at the College of Arts and Sciences – Virginia Tech)

• Weblogs

Inhabiting Information

Added on 9 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

The Architecture of Cognitive Amplification (Barbara Pfenningstorff – MSc Virtual Environments – The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment)

• Information design

The HTML Hell Page

Added on 9 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Some curmudgeonly comments on bad Web design” (Eric S. Raymond)

• Technology

Information Design Discipline

Added on 9 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“According to RSW, the crucial emerging profession of the twenty-first century is that of information architect” (Art and Culture)

• Information design

Certificate in Information Design

Added on 8 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“An interdisciplinary program that draws on the principles of information design” (Faculty of Information Studies – University of Toronto)

• Information design

Experiences

Added on 8 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

A Pattern Language for User Interface Design (Todd Coram and Jim Lee)

• Patterns

Thesauri Online

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“There are many thesauri available through the Internet” (American Society of Indexers)

• Metadata

Information Design on the Web: XML

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“XML is very powerful (…)” (School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University)

• Technology

Criteria for Optimal Web Design

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“… questions to address some of the more important human factors concerns in the design and building of usable websites.” (Michael L. Bernard in SURL)

• Usability

Information Visualization

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Information visualization is an emerging scientific and technical area.” (AT&T Labs-Research)

• InfoViz

Information Design: Online Informatics

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Designing a Worldwide Information Structure” (Kjell-Erik B. Eilertsen & Ole Øyvind Stensli – Information Design Class)

• Information design

Information Architect makes the Web work

Added on 7 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Information Architect: a job that is becoming increasingly more important as the world moves to the Web” (Mercury Center)

• Information architecture

Color Scheme

Added on 6 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“(…) how our brain draws colour pictures” (Beyond 2000)

• Visual design

Don Norman on Edward Tufte

Added on 4 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Tufte lacks an understanding of people and (…) is often wrong about what constitutes good communication.” (ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors mailing list)

• Information design

Poor Usability of Award Winning Web Sites

Added on 3 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“(…) focus on South African sites that have received Loerie Awards” (Jacques Steyn – Dept IS/School of IT – Univ. of Pretoria, SA)

• Usability

Notes on Web Design

Added on 3 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“Valerie Casey is a user experience strategist” (ValCasey)

• Information design

Aggregrating Experience

Added on 2 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

Problems delivering User Centered Design (uidesign.net)

• UCD

XML Document Navigation Language

Added on 2 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

“(…) the navigation of content which helps the user to easily browse a huge document on relatively small devices.” (W3C Note – NEC)

• Navigation

MUSIST

Added on 1 August 2000 Peter Bogaards

Multimedia User Interfaces For Interactive Systems and TV (GSM Software Management AG)

• HCI