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Looking for more? My book The Elements of User Experience puts information architecture and interaction design in context for beginners and experts alike. You can now order the book from Amazon.com.
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Card Sorting Descriptions Tools Commentary and Related Articles Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template by Joe Lamantia in Boxes and Arrows.
STC - Topics in Usability - Card Sorts
Find out more about WebSort's features and pricing . [WebSort] made it much easier to reach a large number of participants anywhere in the world, which was helpful when using it to design and evaluate the IA of a large company intranet with 140,000 employees all over the world. It saves an enormous amount of time. – Jim R., Electronic Ink
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Jesse James Garrett: information architecture resources
This page collects all my published work related to experience design and information architecture. This conceptual model of the considerations involved in designing successful user experiences for Web sites is the foundation for all my subsequent work in this field. It was published as a PDF diagram in 2000 and an acclaimed book in 2002. This model documents the competencies a team must incorporate to successfully deliver Web products, based on my observation and experience.
If anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,” it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online. Despite this, Web interaction designers can’t help but feel a little envious of our colleagues who create desktop software. Desktop applications have a richness and responsiveness that has seemed out of reach on the Web.
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"Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design" can now be ordered from Amazon. The book contains 90+ patterns (including updated versions of the ones you see here), over 300 full-color illustrations, and additional reference material and design advice. There's nothing new here. If you've done any Web or UI design, or even thought about it much, you should say, "Oh, right, I know what that is" to most of these patterns. But a few of them might be new to you, and some of the familiar ones may not be part of your usual design repertoire. Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems.
UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction
The material may be used as is, or adapted for specific needs. Credit to the original contributors, when available (usually included in each file), is appreciated. New contributions can be sent to stcusability at sufficiently.com
Usability Toolkit
The Information Architecture Institute's Tools project aims to disseminate new IA tools from the community in order to learn from each other. Below you will find document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice. The documents have been donated by the community, by people just like you. Patternry is a Web design UI pattern library where you can find solutions to your design challenges. It is also a tool for organizations to document, share, and collaborate on design patterns. (The UI pattern library is free to copy, reuse and adapt, under Creative Commons license.
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Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld: Luminary Lectures @ Your Library
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant. He has been instrumental in helping establish the field of information architecture, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within the field. As a graduate student in library and information studies in the late 1980s, Lou became convinced that the skills of librarians were grossly undervalued — in the coming information explosion, who else would supply the skills of organizing, classifying and labeling information?
