January 2002

IA/Recon 1/6

The Discipline and the Role (Jesse James Garrett) - courtesy of iaslash

Posted by PJB on January 30, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

An Audience With Alan Cooper

"The issue isn't complexity. The issue is inappropriateness." (UMLChina)

Posted by PJB on January 29, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Uzilla

A Usability Testing Technology Service (About Uzilla)

Posted by PJB on January 28, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

There Is No Such Thing As Information Design

"Information cannot be designed; what can be designed are the modes of transfer and the representations of information." (Jeff Raskin - TaskZ) - courtesy of webword

Posted by PJB on January 27, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Emergent Architecture

"Is an information architecture which emerges from the system itself of value, as good as it gets?" (Eric Scheid - IAWiki) - courtesy of iaslash

Posted by PJB on January 27, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Can Jobs Think Outside the Pretty Box?

Interface guru Jef Raskin, who helped design the first Mac, says Apple has to get beyond its "form fetish" (BusinessWeek online)

Posted by PJB on January 25, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Innovation Architecture

"As we embrace the lessons of complex adaptive systems, we must explore the territory of post-modern innovation architecture, using bottom-up methods to incubate online ecologies and economies that exhibit the capacity to learn and evolve over time."
(Peter Morville - Semantic Studios) - courtesy of lawrence lee

Posted by PJB on January 23, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Interaction Design Newsletter 2002.1

"Interaction Design Institute Ivrea is starting the new year with a brand new and long awaited issue of its newsletter full of news and announcements." (Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) - courtesy of brad lauster

Posted by PJB on January 21, 2002 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Question-Answering and Search Engines

"Search engines are not very good at finding specific answers, they are good at matching words (...)" (SearchTools)

Posted by PJB on January 16, 2002 | Classification: Search | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture for The Rest of Us

"(...) to explain information architecture in a very simple and clear manner." (John Rhodes -WebWord)

Posted by PJB on January 16, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information (George A. Miller 1956)

Posted by PJB on January 15, 2002 | Classification: Classics | Comments (0) | Permalink

Dave Schroeder of Pilotvibe Talks About Sound Design for Interactive Multimedia

"What's happening with sound design (for interactive) these days?" (Dave Schroeder - Design Interact) - courtesy of iaslash

Posted by PJB on January 15, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Mind Your Phraseology!

Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability (Christina Wodtke - Digital Web Magazine)

Posted by PJB on January 14, 2002 | Classification: Metadata - Search | Comments (0) | Permalink

Netscape Navigator vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer

"(....) users felt that Netscape was an overall better web browser than IE in all the areas surveyed." (Carolyn Gargaro) - courtesy pf webword

Posted by PJB on January 12, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Out-sourced or In-house?

"(....) cost is the over-riding priority." (Tom Farrell - Frontend Usability InfoCentre)

Posted by PJB on January 09, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Design Basics

"Web design is primarily concerned with the organization and presentation of text-based content. This requires metadata, classification, navigation, search, layout and graphic design skills." (Gerry McGovern)

Posted by PJB on January 07, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Easy Topic Maps

"(...) a place to learn about topic maps" (Peter Van Dijck)

Posted by PJB on January 04, 2002 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

User-Centered Design and Web Development

"UCD seeks to answer questions about users and their tasks and goals, then use the findings to drive development and design." (Raissa Katz-Haas - STC Usability Interface) - courtesy of elegant hack

Posted by PJB on January 02, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

An Experience Continuum

AIGA Advance for Design Summit
(Melissa Niederhelman - LOOP 2001.4)

Posted by PJB on January 01, 2002 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Usability

A Guide to Better and Improved Usability on the Web
(Clear Design) - courtesy of lucdesk

Posted by PJB on January 01, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information, Interaction and Place

"According to behaviorists and cognitivists, interaction represents a high-level order of feedback critical to the educational process."
(Brian Stone - LOOP 2001.4)

Posted by PJB on January 01, 2002 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink