All posts from
June 2004

Why visual form matters for information architecture

Added on 28 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“(…) the full version was recognized more than the content only version, recognized more than the form only version. The interesting finding is that when the form version was recognized, it happened twice as fast as for the other versions. (…) this is because the cognitive processing of visual information happens faster than that for verbal information. While there is some truth to that, let’s play detective and identify what cognitive mechanism is the culprit here.” (Rashmi Sinh) – courtesy of victor lombardi

10 Accessibility Blunders of the Big Players

Added on 25 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Web accessibility is about making your Website accessible to all Internet users (both disabled and non-disabled), regardless of what browsing technology they’re using. More and more countries have passed laws stating that Websites must be accessible to blind and disabled people. With this kind of legal pressure, and the many benefits of accessibility, the big players on the Web must surely have accessible Websites, right?” (Trenton Moss – sitepoint) – courtesy of deswozhere

Victor Lombardi: The InfoDesign profile

Added on 23 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Victor Lombardi is actively participating in the fields of information architecture and interaction design. He co-founded and served on the board of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture. He slaved away as designer for a number of companies, most notably four years at Razorfish. All this while teaching at the Parsons School of Design. He also led the information architecture practice at a global financial services company. Noise Between Stations is Victor’s personal website.” (InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

UXnet Soft Launch

Added on 23 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“User Experience (UX) is an emerging field concerned with improving the design of anything people experience: a web site, a toy, or a museum. UX is inherently interdisciplinary, synthesizing methods, techniques, and wisdom from many fields, ranging from brand design to ethnography to library science to architecture and more. (…) UXnet is dedicated to exploring opportunities for cooperation and collaboration among UX-related organizations and individuals.” (UXnet Mission)

Making Knowledge Management Work on your Intranet

Added on 22 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“In the information economy, the longevity of an organization is based as much on the sophistication of its knowledge management practices as it is on traditional differentiators such as the strength of its products, the talent of its employees, and its marketplace reputation and partner relationships. Simply speaking, as actionable and insightful information becomes the currency of an organization, there are few other ways to tap into any latent potential lost in the office corridors.” (Shiv Singh – Boxes and Arrows)

An Introduction to Information Architecture

Added on 21 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Information architecture (or IA) is the science — some would insist art — of defining the structure, organization, navigation, labeling and indexing of a Website. It is the role of the information architect to decide how a site should be structured, what kind of content it should host, and how to accommodate future growth. In short, information architecture defines the backbone of a Website.” (Subha Subramanian – sitepoint) – courtesy of xblog

Managing Content with Automatic Document Classification

Added on 20 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“News articles and Web directories represent some of the most popular and commonly accessed content on the Web. Information designers normally define categories that model these knowledge domains (i.e. news topics or Web categories) and domain experts assign documents to these categories. The paper describes how machine learning and automatic document classification techniques can be used for managing large numbers of news articles, or Web page descriptions, lightening the load on domain experts.” (Rafael A. Calvo et al. – Journal of Digital Information Vol 5.2)

Toward a Critical Practice in Design

Added on 17 June 2004 Peter Bogaards
“A critical practice challenges prevailing values through works based in some other set of values. This is a form of conscientiousness. In a world where technique has too often become an end in itself, a culturally critical attitude has become essential to meaningful design. How to seek and identify a problem is as important as how to solve a problem.” (Usability News)