December 2001

Information Architecture Really is a Creative Pursuit

"(...) information architecture is the foundation of a useful web site." (Abel Lenz - Design Interact)

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

A Framework for Organizing Web Usability Guidelines

"(...) a general framework of web usability guidelines helping people to structure the way they are working with such guidelines." (Dominique Scapin et al. - 6th Conference on Human Factors & the Web 2000)

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

Interface Innovation

The Future of Information (Tim McDonald - osopinion)

Posted by PJB on December 19, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

A Chat with Peter Metholz

"Rectangles have been the basic building block of graphic user interfaces since the beginning." (Mark Bernstein - eNarrative)

Posted by PJB on December 18, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture versus Graphic Design

"Quality web design is driven by information architecture design principles. Graphic design should support these principles." (Gerry McGovern)

Posted by PJB on December 18, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

What Exactly Are IA Components?

"An IA component is any part of an information system (e.g., a web site) that gets users to content." (Louis Rosenfeld)

Posted by PJB on December 18, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Self-Organizing Sites

"Today, the Internet is a significant channel for conducting commercial transactions, disseminating information, entertaining, and more, resulting in a deluge of online information." (Hisham Alam - WebTechniques)

Posted by PJB on December 18, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

SIGIA-L MailArchive

"This is the archive for the SIGIA-L@asis.org mailing list" (Louis Rosenfeld - Info-Arch.org)

Posted by PJB on December 18, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Digital Libraries

Metadata Resources (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

Posted by PJB on December 17, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Distributed and Disappearing UIs in Ubiquitous Computing at CHI2001

Workshop Paper as in the CHI2002 Proceedings

Posted by PJB on December 14, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Access Guides and the Contradictions of Design

"(...) Richard Saul Wurman's original vision of the once-excellent Access Guides had been dramatically watered down" (Phil Agre - Red Rock Eater Digest)

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

Usability and HTML Forms

"Good usability will also help to improve your form completion rates." (Andrew Starling - E-Commerce Guide)

Posted by PJB on December 12, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Speech Interface Guidelines

"(...) an overview of speech interface design principles" (Alexander I. Rudnicky - School of Computer Science, CMU)

Posted by PJB on December 12, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Product Language in Electronic Media Design

"Communication follows function: how products communicate to users and why designers should care." (Steffen Klein - ACM Ubiquity 2.39)

Posted by PJB on December 11, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designing the User Experience

"(...) these presentations are partially self running, you only need to click between scenes" (Clark MacLeod)

Posted by PJB on December 11, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

DVD Menu Design

The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again (Donald Norman - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on December 10, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes

And Other Notes of the Distinction Between Style and Design (Adam Greenfield - A List Apart)

Posted by PJB on December 10, 2001 | Classification: Visual design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Human Desire

Making the internet more personable (Paul Tate - Internet World)

Posted by PJB on December 10, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

HCI & IA

Information, Interaction, Interface and Usability Architects Share Deliverables (Keith Instone - CHI 2002)

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

Origin of the Phrase 'Information Architecture'

"(...) ideas associated with the phrase "information architecture" and relates them to aspects of the library- and information-science (LIS) professions." (R. E. Wyllys, GSLIS - Univ. of Texas Austin)

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

Information Interaction Design

A Unified Field Theory of Design s(Nathan Shedroff 1994)

Posted by PJB on December 05, 2001 | Classification: Classics | Comments (0) | Permalink

Reading Design

"(...) the primary goal of communication design: to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read." (Dean Allen - A List Apart)

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

Building Usable WAP Applications

"(...) the primary goal of communication design: to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read." (Luca Passani - TopXML)

Posted by PJB on December 04, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Something in the Air

An interface only a mother could love (Thom Stark - IBM developWorks)

Posted by PJB on December 04, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

CHARM

Choosing Human-Computer Interaction Appropriate Research Methods (University of Maryland)

Posted by PJB on December 03, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Human-Centered Design and the Productivity Paradox?

"(...) both usability engineering and HCI in general have a much wider range of tools and methods available for use" (Ross Philip and Susan Turner - Usability News)

Posted by PJB on December 03, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Glossary of Usability Terms and Definitions

"(...) we are creating a glossary of terms which customers often ask about." (Ergo Labratories)

Posted by PJB on December 01, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Taxonomies Put Content in Context

"(...) the problem of designing systems that have a humanlike understanding of words, concepts and categories is far from solved." (Russell Letson - Transform Magazine)

Posted by PJB on December 01, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink