“(…) wireframes should look like frames made of wire.” (Victor Lombardi – IAWiki)
All posts from
November 2001
Web Designers Should Stop Searching
“To satisfy surfers, online content must be easy to find–without that pesky search engine.” (Scarlet Pruitt – PC World)
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
“(…) an up-to-date explanantion of the design of the current and next generation interactive technologies, such as the web, mobiles and wearables.” (J. Preece et al. – John Wiley & Sons)
Information and its Structuring: Problems and Opportunities
A Powerpoint Presentation (Paul Dourish – UoC Irvine)
Converting A Controlled Vocabulary Into An Ontology
“The prevalance of digital information raised issues regarding the suitability of conventional library tools for organizing information.” (Jian Qin & Stephen Paling – School of Information Studies Syracuse University)
Formal Educational Credentials for Information Architects
“The ACIA received 172 responses to this survey (…)” (Argus Center for Information Architecture)
Report Back from User Experience 2001/2002 Conference
“The much-hyped man continued with his evangelist mission, bringing with him a band of cohorts charged with making the Internet a better place, through better design and appreciation of the user.” (Usability News)
Web Classification is Essential
“Without professional classification a website becomes a jumble yard of content that is confusing and time wasting.” (Gerry McGovern)
Mongrel or Hybrid
The Role of Design in the Internet Age (Seybold Seminars)
Topics in Usability
Usability and the US Presidential Election Ballot (STC Usability SIG)
The Multimodal Interaction Group’s Publications
“(…) a downloadable selection of the papers” (Multimodal Interaction Group – GIST)
Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction
“The central goal of this book is to teach the reader how to design user interfaces that will enable people to learn computer systems quickly and use them effectively, efficiently, and comfortably.” (Clayton Lewis and John Rieman 1993 – 1994)
Do Users Appreciate Good IA On Large Sites?
“We all know that a solid information architecture is required for a commercial site, right?” (Madhu Menon)
Mobile HCI 2001
Third International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (IHM-HCI 2001 Lille France September 2001)
Device Independent Principles
“(…) to suggest that Web content and applications can be authored, generated or adapted for a better user experience” (Roger Gimson et al. – W3C Working Draft)
Information Architects and Their Central Role in Content Management
“(…) primary role of an IA is to take on the analysis and design tasks that are specially related to content.” (Rita Warren – ASIS&T Bulletin 28.1)
Improving Mobile Internet Usability
“(…) many of mobile internet systems are difficult to use, lack flexibility and robustness.” (George Buchanan et al. – WWW 10 2001)
Web Category Analysis Tool
“(…) to test a proposed or existing categorization scheme of a website to determine how well the categories and items are understood by users.” (NIST Web Metrics)
Complexity in the Interface Age
Criteria For Optimal Web Design
“The organization of information within websites is vital to its overall usefulness” (Michael L Bernard – SURL)
