February 2003

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work

"The book is a how-to guide. It describes methods and techniques for designing websites with the assumption that the principles of usability are pervasive." (Eric Lease Morgan) - courtesy of cognitive architects

Posted by PJB on February 26, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Broadband Meets Broadcast at AIGA Group

"The London AIGA Experience Design forum recently hosted Jennifer Whitney of the Boston-based television producer WGBH to hear about their interaction design challenges." (Michael Andrews - Usability News)

Posted by PJB on February 25, 2003 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

Chapter 2: Flow in Web Design (Web Reference) - courtesy of webword

Posted by PJB on February 25, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Beyond Cardsorting: Free-Listing Methods to Explore User Categorizations

"Free-listing is a technique that can help you determine the scope of the domain while providing some insight into how the domain is structured." (Rashmi Sinha - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on February 25, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Learning Objects Metadata: Implementations and Open Issues

"(...) to facilitate to the development of large-scale distributed learning frameworks and new models of learning resources design and delivery, but have a limited implementation experience behind them." (Kateryna Synytsya - IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter 5.1) - courtesy of elearning

Posted by PJB on February 25, 2003 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Future of Help? Nine Trends in Online User Assistance

"Whilst applications are becoming more complex, many people believe that online user assistance hasnít changed much since WinHelp was introduced with Windows 3. This is a misconception." (William Birn and Ellis Pratt - Cherryleaf) - courtesy of ellis pratt

Posted by PJB on February 24, 2003 | Classification: TechCom | Comments (0) | Permalink

Interaction Design Is Like A Good Party

"Nathan Shedroff is an interaction design consultant, based in California. He is also an author of several books and an Explorer of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea." (Holly Coleman & Mark Vanderbeeken - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea)

Posted by PJB on February 24, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Collaboration and Information Design

"While the basics are very simple - create information that achieves maximum effectiveness by balancing the correct content with the best aesthetics - successfully accomplishing it is something else entirely." (Dirk Knemeyer - Thread Inc.)

Posted by PJB on February 24, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines

"Guidelines conflict on whether to limit intranet search to a single search box or dedicate an additional box to employee directory searches. There's theory to support both guidelines. What's up?." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on February 24, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Starting a Career in User Experience

"With dedication, some talent, a few classes, and a healthy dose of self-promotion, the transition was fairly easy, very enjoyable, and took about two years." (Marcus Haid - Adaptive Path)

Posted by PJB on February 23, 2003 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

A User-Centered Approach to Selling Information Architecture

"The most common approach to selling IA involves introducing the basic concepts, along with explanations and examples of what deliverables are produced, and some discussion of the benefits." (Jeff Lash - Digital Web Magazine)

Posted by PJB on February 21, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

The London Underground Map: Imagining Modern Time and Space

"The London Underground map (...) appeared in 1933 originally designed in 1931 by Harry Beck." (Janin Hadlaw - Design Issues 19.1) - courtesy of karel van der waarde

Posted by PJB on February 21, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

On the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy

"Hypertext as mediated by the Web browser has not proved to embody the qualities of the ideal post-structural text longed for by literary theorists such as George Landow; neither has the World Wide Web fulfilled the document-association function of the memex, the hypothetical research tool Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 essay, As We May Think." (dichtung-digital - Dennis G. Jerz) - courtesu of webword

Posted by PJB on February 20, 2003 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink

Conversation with Marc Andreessen

"(...) the Netscape co-founder and current chairman of IT outsourcing-provider Opsware chats about where Internet navigation is headed, why he stopped using IE, and what he would do differently if he re-created the browser." (Joanna Glasner - Wired) - courtesy of nooface

Posted by PJB on February 20, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designing Information Architecture

The Flamenco Project, Methods for Information Architecture, and Human Cognition and Information Architecture (Rashi Sinha)

Posted by PJB on February 20, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

AIfIA to Operate IA Slash

"Michael Angeles, creator of the information architecture community news site IA Slash, is donating the site to the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture." (AIfIA)

Posted by PJB on February 19, 2003 | Classification: Special | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Markup Language Specification

"The goal of IML is to enable handheld computers, (that have limitations in the display size and input capabilities), to access and render content from the Internet." (Simputer Project) - courtesy of dmitri ragano

Posted by PJB on February 19, 2003 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

Malacca: Revolutionary Interface for Handhelds

"Malacca is the world's most advanced interface for handhelds, and is based on IML, the Simputer's XML-based lingua franca." (PicoPeta Simputers) - courtesy of dmitri ragano

Posted by PJB on February 19, 2003 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis

"This article originally appeared in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science v23, 1-30 (April-July 1998)." (Dr. Louise Spiteri - AIfIA)

Posted by PJB on February 19, 2003 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designed for Life: Q&A with Donald Norman

"(...) the guru's guru of a world in which people really care whether everyday gadgets work intuitive." (Wendy M. Grossman - The New Scientist) - courtesy of lawrence lee

Posted by PJB on February 19, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Articles: Information Design

From: "(...) a comprehensive portal to online resources in professional, scientific and technical communication." (The EServer Technical Communication Library) - coutesy of ben hyde

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Talking About the Elements of User Experience

An Interview with Jesse James Garrett (John S. Rhodes et al. - WebWord)

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext

"Electronic literature today is hypertextual and more, finding inspiration in visual arts, animation, games and cinema." (Susana Tosca and Jill Walker - Journal of Digital Information 3.3)

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design: The Meta Discipline for Business

"Information Design integrates numerous disciplines to create effective information." (Thread Inc.)

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

User-Centered Design in the Experience Economy Era

"The User-Centered Design Process is an attempt to take design as a competitive tool at least a couple of steps beyond 'Nice!'" (Anders Norman - Ocean Observations)

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Investor Relations Website Design

"Individual investors are intimidated by overly complex IR sites and need simple summaries of financial data. Both individual and professional investors want the company's own story and investment vision." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on February 18, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Centralize Your Information Architecture

"Save money and win friends by standardizing your information architecture." (Gerry McGovern - User Interface 7 West Conference)

Posted by PJB on February 17, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Words Drive Action: An Interview with Gerry McGovern

"(...) about the importance of an editorial perspective in a web development." (Christine Perfetti and Josh Porter - User Interface 7 West Conference)

Posted by PJB on February 17, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Conflict in HCI Field: Computer Science vs. Psychology

"Forget about the implementation! It is absolutely secondary!" (Yarone D. Goren) - courtesy of webword

Posted by PJB on February 17, 2003 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Controlled Vocabulary

"A controlled vocabulary is often used to make a database easier to search." (David Riecks) - courtesy of poor but happy

Posted by PJB on February 17, 2003 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design International Conference

"(...) a forum for addressing and discussing, in considerable depth, issues relevant to the paths and effective use of information design for communication within a research perspective." (September 8-11, 2003 - Recife, Brazil)

Posted by PJB on February 17, 2003 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Malofiej Infographics World Summit 11

University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain - March 23-28, 2003 (Capitulo Español Society for News Design)

Posted by PJB on February 14, 2003 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Tangible Interfaces and Graspable Interfaces

"(...) graspable and tangible interfaces are systems relating to the use of physical artifacts as representations and controls for digital information." (Eva Hornecker) - courtesy of brightly colored food

Posted by PJB on February 13, 2003 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture: the v-2 interview

"(...) the message that an organisation calling itself the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture had decloaked and announced its existence to the world came as nothing short of a grenade in the Inbox." (Adam Greenfield - v-2)

Posted by PJB on February 13, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Cyborg logs and collective stream of (de)consciousness capture for producing attribution-free informatic content such as cyborglogs

"Because of the participants' ability to constantly experience the world through the apparatus, the apparatus can behave as a true extension of the participants' mind and body, giving rise to a new kind of collective experience." (Steve Mann - First Monday 8.2)

Posted by PJB on February 12, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Building an Information Architecture the Adaptive Path Way: An Interview with Indi Young

"(...) the creator of the mental model diagram and gap analysis process." (Josh Porter - User Interface 7 West Conference)

Posted by PJB on February 12, 2003 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

The New R&D: Relevant & Desirable

"Somewhere in the process of evangelizing user-centered design, user experience professionals seem to have forgotten the value of vision-driven design." (George Olsen - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on February 11, 2003 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

What's Your Idea of a Mental Model?

"As usability and design professionals, we often use the term ìmental modelî loosely." (Scott McDaniel - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on February 11, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology February/March 2003

"IA, Therefore I Am - James Kalbach" (ASIS&T)

Posted by PJB on February 11, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Design for Small Screens

- "(...) a 20-minute overview of how life is different for web people entering the world of small devices." (Marc Rettig) - courtesy of hydesign

Posted by PJB on February 10, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Homepage Real Estate Allocation

"On average, sample sites evenly distributed valuable screen space between content, navigation, fluff, blank areas, and system overhead. Areas of user interest should occupy more than the current 39%." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on February 10, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Microsoft Usability Research

"Last Updated: November 12, 2001" (Microsoft) - courtesy of craig marion

Posted by PJB on February 07, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

IA Summit 2003 'Making Connections'

Conference Schedule Update (ASIS&T)

Posted by PJB on February 06, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Breadcrumb Navigation: An Exploratory Study of Usage

"This textual representation of where and how information is located within the website allows the user to link to major categories of information along a continuum of sequential order." (Bonnie Lida, Spring Hull & Katie Pilcher - SURL Usability News 5.1) - courtesy of webword

Posted by PJB on February 06, 2003 | Classification: Navigation | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Future of Information Architecture: Part II

"(...) the results of a survey conducted by the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture in January 2003 in preparation for the Leadership Seminar at the ASIS&T IA Summit." (Peter Morville - AIfIA)

Posted by PJB on February 05, 2003 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designing for Learners, Designing for Users

"I recently conducted some online course usability reviews for a client when I came across a strange but, I suspect, not unusual phenomenon that I have encountered elsewhere in the past." (Dave Smulders - ACM eLearn Magazine) - courtesy of elearningpost

Posted by PJB on February 05, 2003 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Usability Views: The Usability A to Z

"2,952 articles about usability, IA, HCI and web design." (Clive McEnroy) - courtesy of guuui

Posted by PJB on February 05, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Language of Graphics

Lecture of Yuri Engelhardt on Feb. 13, 2003 (Audiovisual Institute - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Posted by PJB on February 05, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Visualising Social Interaction

"Social interaction provides us with visual patterns that help us to situate ourselves in our environment. In Internet, however, this doesnít happen so easily. Some visualisations are appearing to remedy the problem." (Juan C. Dürsteler - Inf@Vis!)

Posted by PJB on February 04, 2003 | Classification: InfoViz | Comments (0) | Permalink

Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical Communication

Introduction chapter (Beth Mazur - IDblog)

Posted by PJB on February 04, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

No Silver Bullet for Web Content

"There is no magical formula, no sleek software, that will take away the pain of badly written, badly organized content." (Gerry McGovern)

Posted by PJB on February 03, 2003 | Classification: TechCom | Comments (0) | Permalink

InfoGraphics : Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

"Going to be adding links, as they come, to infographics and interactive graphics reporting on the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster" (Nixlog) - courtesy of kottke

Posted by PJB on February 03, 2003 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Courtesy Titles - Their Proper Use and Website Design Guidelines

"Do you need a courtesy title? (...) Did you know you could be breaking the law by making them mandatory on your website?" (Silicon Glen) - courtesy of webword

Posted by PJB on February 01, 2003 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Contentology

"(...) blends disciplines such as information architecture, information design, knowledge management, communications and media theory, usability engineering, Web design, 'Webitorial' writing and Internet marketing."

Posted by PJB on February 01, 2003 | Classification: TechCom | Comments (0) | Permalink