November 2001

WireFrames

"(...) wireframes should look like frames made of wire." (Victor Lombardi - IAWiki)

Posted by PJB on November 30, 2001 | Classification: Wireframes | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Designers Should Stop Searching

"To satisfy surfers, online content must be easy to find--without that pesky search engine." (Scarlet Pruitt - PC World)

Posted by PJB on November 28, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 28, 2001 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information and its Structuring: Problems and Opportunities

A Powerpoint Presentation (Paul Dourish - UoC Irvine)

Posted by PJB on November 28, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 27, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Formal Educational Credentials for Information Architects

"The ACIA received 172 responses to this survey (...)" (Argus Center for Information Architecture)

Posted by PJB on November 27, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 27, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Classification is Essential

"Without professional classification a website becomes a jumble yard of content that is confusing and time wasting." (Gerry McGovern)

Posted by PJB on November 26, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Mongrel or Hybrid

The Role of Design in the Internet Age (Seybold Seminars)

Posted by PJB on November 26, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Topics in Usability

Usability and the US Presidential Election Ballot (STC Usability SIG)

Posted by PJB on November 26, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Multimodal Interaction Group's Publications

"(...) a downloadable selection of the papers" (Multimodal Interaction Group - GIST)

Posted by PJB on November 26, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 26, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 23, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Mobile HCI 2001

Third International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (IHM-HCI 2001 Lille France September 2001)

Posted by PJB on November 22, 2001 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 22, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 22, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Improving Mobile Internet Usability

"(...) many of mobile internet systems are difficult to use, lack flexibility and robustness." (George Buchanan et al. - WWW 10 2001)

Posted by PJB on November 22, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on November 21, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Complexity in the Interface Age

"(...) the power struggle in machine/human relationships and what it means today to be information-technology literate" (Jeremy J. Shapiro - ACM Ubiquity)

Posted by PJB on November 21, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Criteria For Optimal Web Design

"The organization of information within websites is vital to its overall usefulness" (Michael L Bernard - SURL)

Posted by PJB on November 21, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information and Computation

"(...) The metaphor about information and computation is interesting." (Lee Smolin - EDGE)

Posted by PJB on November 20, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Patterns in Practice

A Workshop for UI Designers (Martijn van Welie et al. - CHI 2002)

Posted by PJB on November 20, 2001 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Richard Saul Wurman

"(...) the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable." (Mark Wieman - frontwheeldrive)

Posted by PJB on November 19, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Tutorial: Functional Specification

"A functional spec is a document detailing the client's requirements for an application." (mojofat)

Posted by PJB on November 19, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

A Smarter Web

"(...) a 'Semantic Web' that understands the meanings that underlie the tangle of information" (Mark Frauenfelder - MIT Technology Review)

Posted by PJB on November 16, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Interfaces and Visualization

"This chapter discusses user interfaces for communication between human information seekers and information retrieval systems." (Matty Hearst - Modern Information Retrieval)

Posted by PJB on November 16, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Boxes and Arrows

"(...) the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape." (contact B&A)

Posted by PJB on November 14, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Content as Navigation Tool

"(...) the journey is more important than the destination" (Christopher Schmitt - Digital Web Magazine)

Posted by PJB on November 14, 2001 | Classification: Navigation | Comments (0) | Permalink

Adaptive Hypertext Networks That Learn The Common Semantics Of Their Users

"The Internet is steadfastly becoming a highly popular medium for the distribution and communication of ideas and knowledge." (Johan Bollen - VU Brussel BE)

Posted by PJB on November 14, 2001 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Speed of Information Architecture

"What bothers me most about web and intranet redesign projects is the widespread practice of throwing out the baby with the bathwater." (Peter Morville - Semantic Studios)

Posted by PJB on November 14, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Internet Access for Human Beings

"How can we make technology adjust to people, instead of vice versa?" (Don Norman et al. - Pop!Tech 2001 Live webcast)

Posted by PJB on November 13, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architectect's Role in UXD

PowerPoint Presentation (Raoul Rickenberg and Lilian Svec - AIGA Experience Design)

Posted by PJB on November 13, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Usability News

"(...) bringing you all the latest within the field of usability" (Dave Clarke et al. - British HCI Group)

Posted by PJB on November 13, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Paper Prototyping

"(...) this usability testing method can help you sidestep problems before you write your code." (Carolyn Snyder - IBM developerWorks)

Posted by PJB on November 13, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Community Infrastructure for Information Architects

"(...) a hopeful attempt to discuss and capture ideas that may lead to useful shared services for the information architecture community" - (Louis Rosenfeld et al.)

Posted by PJB on November 12, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Hypertext Garden

"The attention of the audience is a writer's most precious possession (...)" (Mark Bernstein - Eastgate)

Posted by PJB on November 09, 2001 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink

Sharing Their Knowledge

"(...) the nascent field of user experience can only evolve through the sharing of ideas." (Adaptive Path)

Posted by PJB on November 09, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Practicing Information Architecture SIG

"(...) a collection of information from the 'Practicing Information Architecture' Special Interest Group meeting at CHI 2001" (Keith Instone)

Posted by PJB on November 08, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

You'd Think They'd Learn

Bad Design Kills Web Sites (Leslie Walker - Washington Post)

Posted by PJB on November 07, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Visualization of Abstract Information

"(...) recent concepts of visualization of abstract information contained in document databases." (Rolf Daessler)

Posted by PJB on November 07, 2001 | Classification: InfoViz | Comments (0) | Permalink

E-Books

"(...) an InfoDesign-Café discussion about their usability potentials and problems" (Conrad Taylor)

Posted by PJB on November 06, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Conferences

Information Design Conference Calendar (Karel van der Waarde - InfoDesign mailinglist)

Posted by PJB on November 06, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Perceived Information Architecture Test

"(...) how the test is conducted, when it should be used, and what value it provides." (John Rhodes - Webword)

Posted by PJB on November 05, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Visual Journalism

An Eye on the Graphic News - (About Visual Journalism)

Posted by PJB on November 05, 2001 | Classification: Information graphics | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture - Build A Solid Foundation For Your Site

"(...) the science of designing the labelling, navigation, organization and search systems to help people find and manage information more successfully." (Chris Rourke - User Vision)

Posted by PJB on November 05, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Writing for Many Interest Levels

"Clear, usable content is easily created by deliberating writing for many different levels of reader interest" (Nathan Wallace - e-gineer)

Posted by PJB on November 04, 2001 | Classification: Writing | Comments (0) | Permalink

DocTypes

XML Document Types for Everyone (doctypes.org)

Posted by PJB on November 02, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

The CHI2002 - AIGA Experience Design FORUM

Minneapolis Minnesota USA - April 21-22 2002 (Contact FORUM)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Strategies of Influence for Interaction Designers

"(...) there has been a struggle between the structure of a document and its presentation." (Scott Berkun - UIWeb.com)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Meet the New Information Architects

"This discipline is applicable to every project that delivers anything with interaction (an online interface, a document, a process)." (Paula Thornton - TDAN Perspective)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Pandora's Portal

"You need to understand how to define metadata schemes and develop controlled vocabularies and thesauri." (Peter Morville - Semantic Studios)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Deconstructing: Cisco.com

"Poor information architecture and difficult-to-follow pathways seem designed to turn away the potential Cisco customer" (Louis Rosenfeld - Internet World)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Masters in Interaction Design and Information Architecture

"When you graduate, you will be able to develop structures of information directed to specific audiences (...)" (University of Baltimore - School of Information Arts and Technologies)

Posted by PJB on November 01, 2001 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink