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Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
Making sense of it all Abstract To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version of this problem: how to organize web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for.
A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig . Peter is currently Director of Research at Google. For several years until recently, he was the Director of Search Quality -- the key man at Google responsible for the quality of their search results. Peter also is an ACM Fellow and co-author of the best-selling AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach . As such, Peter's insights into search are truly extraordinary.
Datawocky: Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors?
Aza on Design
There is some problem you are trying to solve. In your life, at work, in a design. You are probably solving the wrong problem.
Responsive Web Design
The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. A building’s foundation defines its footprint, which defines its frame, which shapes the facade. Each phase of the architectural process is more immutable, more unchanging than the last. Creative decisions quite literally shape a physical space, defining the way in which people move through its confines for decades or even centuries. Working on the web, however, is a wholly different matter. Our work is defined by its transience, often refined or replaced within a year or two.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.
Jesse James Garrett: ia/recon
Jesse James Garrett: Visual Vocabulary for Information Architecture
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. version 1.1b (6 March 2002) Jesse James Garrett (contact)
Usability News 62 - Bernard
Usability News is a free web newsletter that is produced by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University. The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design, usability testing, and research in human-computer interaction. Barbara S. Chaparro , Editor
There are lots of definitions of social software out there, ranging from the clinical ("software that enables people to connect through computer-mediated communication") to the pragmatic ("stuff that gets spammed"). While doing research for a recent workshop , I came across a useful list of seven social software elements. These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software.
Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Click for full image Infographics are nice, but meta-infographics even better. While the bulk of them tend to be snarky takes on the form, this one by FFunction takes a more informative route.
Meta-Infographic Visualizes Principles of Infographics
May 19th, 2011 App Sketcher is a lightweight prototyping tool for developing interactive HTML prototypes or wireframes. The software installs as a standalone Adobe AIR application and therefore may run on a number of platforms. There is a left hand pane which contains draggable and editable user interface components – perhaps one the most common features shared across some other tools out there.
App Sketcher