Information Architecture
April 15, 2008
04:44
I'm working on a new information architecture for a transport-related website....
Categories: Information Architecture
April 14, 2008
13:28
Designing Ethical Experiences: Some Practical Suggestions Managing ethical conflict ... "In the first installment of this series on ethics, I examined the way ethical dilemmas can impact the design of user experiences, describing how one scenario played out in the unfortunate experiences of some social networking service users in 2007. With that cautionary tale as reference, I explored how unresolved conflicts between stakeholders’ values or perspectives frequently manifest themselves as
Categories: Information Architecture
11:36
From Paul Anderson of Intelligent Content Ltd comes the announcement of the latest JISC report. Understanding metadata - the possibilities, purposes, and functioning in a Library 2.0 world, or even the information architecture world of any online information source, is crucial. If you want to keep up-to-date, or find out what this ‘metadata’ talk is all about, then now is as good a time as any to grab a coffee and start reading. Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future direc
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09:14
"There have been some absolutely phenomenal presentations at the IA Summit in Miami so far. If you didn't happen to make it out to the conference or you'd like to revisit the material, I've amassed a list of IA Summit podcasts and PowerPoint slides. Not all presentations have been made available online yet so I'll make a follow-up post in a couple of days to capture any new presentation links." (NLC Internet Marketing Blog)
Categories: Information Architecture
06:19
The IA Summit started here in Miami in earnest on Saturday morning, and I'm due to give my presentation today. As I did with the Euro IA Summit in Barcelona last year, I thought I would put together a summary of my take-away facts, quotes and top tips, on a day-by-day basis. Journey to the Center of Design - Jared Spool Jared was very entertaining and energetic as a keynote. His premise was that User-Centred Design was the stone in the stone soup of getting good design out of the door. Afte
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01:48
This morning, Peter Morville (of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web aka “T...
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00:52
Before lunch, Paula Smith the records manager at Pharmac presented on Effective Follow Through and Management of your Systems Post Roll-out. On reflection, it appears that this presentation was a broad and general analysis (eg, wisdom to embrace drawn from many projects that Paula has been involved with), not a specific case study on Pharmac. Key question: how do you set the expectations with users and management? Need to set (and document) the expectations early on. What's "change manageme
Categories: Information Architecture
00:38
I was inspired to write this post after a chat between Jeremy, an information architecture intern on my team, Dave Robertson, our VP of Insight & Planning at Critical Mass and myself....Industry associations (e. g. , IAI for those interested in information architecture)...
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00:17
Creating an Enterprise Wide Knowledge Management Strategy (Grant Margison) 0945 ... Bring Back the People for IM Success (Cairo Walker) 1045 ... Case Study: Tried and Tested Change Management Techniques (Roma Niemirska) 1130 ... Rolling Out an Information Management System: Challenges, Changes and the Aftermath (June Ralston and Mark English) 1215 ... Effective Follow Through and Management of your Systems Post-Roll-out (Paula Smith) After lunch I needed to cut out to an afternoon of meetin
Categories: Information Architecture
00:10
If you aren’t familiar with color theory, use of typography, information architecture, navigation and interface design, page layout and design, you can potentially m...There is a learning curve to knowing how to present information online (called information architecture in the profession), as well as for using the site builder....
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00:04
Information architecture is the process of organising information in a logical, intuitive manner so that the user can find their way around the site quickly and p ainlessly....
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April 13, 2008
21:09
Information architecture that works: Essential techniques for structuring and organising your website...
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20:59
As I mentioned on The Podcast Sisters show we recorded this evening, if you are in the Dublin area between the 22-24 April 2008, I highly recommend that you check out the details of the forthcoming Online Marketing Bootcamp being hosted by iQ Content. Read on to find out how to avail of a 10% discount on the registration fee. The online marketing bootcamp includes workshops on the following areas: Search engine marketing 202: More advanced techniques for enhancing your website's search engine
Categories: Information Architecture
20:11
Sites are typically designed visually for Western culture, and rely on an enormous body of practices for usability, information architecture and interaction design t...
Categories: Information Architecture
14:26
It’s a year or so after launch of Monocle and things are going very well, both in print and on
Categories: Information Architecture
14:26
It’s a year or so after launch of Monocle and things are going very well, both in print and online, so it's time for me to move on. Having worked with Tyler Brûlé and the rest of the Monocle team to breathe life into the project, creating the first volume of the magazine and iterations of the website and steering it through its first successful year of operation, I decided to leave, and departed at the end of March 2008. The project is up and running, with good solid foundations. Thus, others c
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09:49
This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need....
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05:00
By Colleen Jones
Published: April 12, 2008
When you think of persuasion, what comes to mind? Tricks such as the name repetition and personality mirroring touted by Dunder Mifflin sales representatives? Devious emotional pleas like those Bart Simpson wields on his dad? The constantly shifting rhetoric of unctuous politicians? Deceptively “free” software that actually is spyware?
Such funny and frightening examples are not really persuasion at all. They are forms of manipulation, and they give persuasion a bad name. As I discussed in my previous column, elements of persuasion are important to creating winning content. To help safeguard content from becoming manipulation, we need to understand its distinction from persuasion.
Source: UX-matters
04:57
By Joe Lamantia
Published: April 12, 2008
In the first installment of this series on ethics, I examined the way ethical dilemmas can impact the design of user experiences, describing how one scenario played out in the unfortunate experiences of some social networking service users in 2007. With that cautionary tale as reference, I explored how unresolved conflicts between stakeholders’ values or perspectives frequently manifest themselves as ethical challenges for designers. Looking ahead at the future of UX design, I described fundamental shifts that are occurring in our culture and technology around permeability and centralization. In the future, designers will lead the creation of increasingly multilateral, multidimensional, and co-created experiences. Such integrated experiences could introduce substantial, new potential sources of conflict—thanks to their greater interconnectedness and complexity. Therefore, I suggested this clear imperative in response to this potentially conflicted future: Design must find effective ways of managing conflict, encourage the creation of ethical experiences, and avoid ethically unsatisfactory compromises. Finally, I offered three goals designers must work toward.
Source: UX-matters
04:54
By Dirk Knemeyer
Published: April 12, 2008
The word experience has gained significant traction over the past 15 years. Beginning with the mainstreaming of the term user experience in the software industry and, later, extended to the work of marketing professionals who began thinking about marketing as being experiential, the idea of experience as a focused professional area of endeavor is alive, well, and growing rapidly. However, the more our space grows, the more confused and chaotic is our collective understanding of the meaning of these terms. To try to help clarify this murkiness, I want to share my definitional model for the fields of experience and provide guidelines for the use of various terms.
Source: UX-matters
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