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Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
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. Information architects have so far applied known and well-tried tools from library science to solve this problem, and now topic maps are sailing up as another potential tool for information architects. This raises the question of how topic maps compare with the traditional solutions, and that is the question this paper attempts to address.
From Peter Morvilles's “The System of Information Architecture” “ Information architects are inveterate systems thinkers. In the Web’s early days, we were the folks who focused less on pages than on the relationships between pages. Today, we continue to design organization, navigation, and search systems as integral parts of the whole. Of course, the context of our practice has shifted.
Journal of Information Architecture
Dear storytellers, this is a wonderful project you should hear about (if you don't know it, yet). The Hundred Story House (a Kickstarter porject). From the project page: Brooklyn is very bookish. If you walk the streets on a fair weathered weekend in certain neighborhoods, you will notice a system of informal and anonymous book-sharing. You will see piles of paperbacks and hardcovers lying on sidewalks or stacked on brownstone steps, available to any passersby looking for a good novel, or a cookbook from 1972.
UX Storytellers
Comme chaque année, l’agence norvégienne Netlife partage son calendrier sur les mauvaises pratiques de l’utilisabilité ! Découvrez leur nouveau calendrier satirique pour l’année 2011.
Calendrier Bad Usability 2011
Roger Ach Showing people what a product does is a better way to catch their attention than telling them about it. Car salesmen encourage test drives, ice cream stores give out free samples, and I'd be willing to bet that few people purchase Hanger Cascader without watching the infomercial first.
5 Free Tools for Creating a Screencast : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum
Ten Commandments For Digital Content | Digitalword
1. Function Must Exist Without Form iPad, Blackberry, Droid, PS3, In-Dash Car Console – Virtually all digital devices now connect to the Internet. Be cognizant that your content may not be viewed as you intended. Is your content scalable? Accessible?
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?
Research plays a key role in understanding how people use search engines, navigate websites and engage with advertising. It allows us to glimpse inside the mind of the customer at the time they're interacting online, enabling us to improve the website user experience. As a leading search marketing services provider, Enquiro has also built a reputation for conducting and publishing ground-breaking research. That research gets wrapped up into the webinars , white papers and articles we produce. The Enquiro team takes great pride in the fact that so many marketers have found value in our published content.
Enquiro Research
Portfolio management and trading platform When this project began, Barclays Global Investors ("BGI," now part of BlackRock), was the world's largest money manager. Its portfolio managers used quantitative techniques to drive investment decisions, trading billions of dollars a day with tools that included homegrown command-line, spreadsheets, Windows tools, and third-party systems. In order to increase market responsiveness, improve workflows, and better manage risk, BGI set about creating Apex, a unified portfolio management and trading platform.
Product Design & Strategy
Building the UX Dreamteam - Part 2 - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Building the UX Dreamteam - Part 2 As we discussed in part one , the skills in research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and writing define the recognized areas of User Experience design. However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy.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.A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design
The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flow of things.” 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.At conferences and meet-ups, I spend a lot of time with young practitioners. And every time I chat with them, I try to talk them into speaking at a conference and/or writing an article. I bet when you sat down to work on a problem, you did what we all do– ran a search to see if anyone else had already solved it. And if it was solved, you did what the expert to did and moved on with your life. But more likely is you found some articles that held a few clues, then you tracked down a couple people to ask them what they thought, and then you experimented.
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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.