Category: Information Architecture
March 31, 2008
UX Lunch: Wayfinding
The second stop in the UX Lunch series is Sylvia Harris’ talk on wayfinding at New York-Presbyterian Hospital from the 2007 IDEA conference. 
March 17, 2008
UX Lunch: Experience is the Product
In an attempt to implement Jared Spool’s “educate and administrate” model* for…
August 2, 2007
LukeW on Web Application Design
Once again Luke Wroblewski brings it back to basics with his presentation,…
July 31, 2007
The IA as Social Architect
I read danah boyd’s essay, “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and…
November 7, 2006
IDEA Conference Podcast
The IA Institute recently held their first IDEA Conference at the newly…
June 13, 2006
Eyetracking Smackdown
Two headlines were ironically juxtaposed in my feed reader today: Eye Tracking…
June 9, 2006
Load up yer iPods, it’ a Conference Conference
I’ve gathered links to podcasts of a bunch of the stuff I’ve…
April 21, 2006
Boxes and Arrows: Summit Summaries
Boxes and Arrows has posted their wrap-up of the 2006 IA Summit:…
April 5, 2006
Lost, Gaming, and Immersive Information Architectures
Andrew Hinton gave a great presentation at the IA Summit on “Clues…
March 27, 2006
IA Summit 2006: Day Three
Having a hot chocolate in a Blenz on Robson St. and trying…
March 26, 2006
IA Summit 2006: Day Two
More interesting thoughts than I can capture right now, but here are…
March 25, 2006
IA Summit 2006: Day One
Here’s a quick wrap-up of some of the first day’s highlights and…
March 9, 2006
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Intranet
Last night, Kevin Kearney, Experience Lead at Avenue A | Razorfish spoke…
March 8, 2006
University Course Catalog: Next for Faceted Search?
So speaking of faceted search, a study in the current issue of…
February 21, 2006
Booked: Information Architecture Summit 2006
I’m all registered and reserved for the 2006 Information Architecture Summit in…
February 14, 2006
Yahoo! Makes User Interface Pattern Libraries Public
Yahoo! is making portions of their Design Pattern Library and user interface…
January 18, 2006
Thin Slicing Meets Web Design: Judging the Visual Appeal of Sites
Nature has a summary of a paper asserting that “visual appeal can…
November 18, 2005
Bias in Usability Testing - Carolyn Snyder speaks to PhiCHI
Carolyn Snyder (author of Paper Prototyping gave an interesting presentation to the…
October 13, 2005
The Results-Oriented User Interface: IA, Live Preview, and Micro-Templates
As usual, Jakob’s got everyone stirred up with his take on Microsoft’s…
October 7, 2005
Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability
Peter Morville is anxious for responses to his latest book Ambient Findability,…
May 6, 2005
Yahoo! on Design Patterns
There’s a really great new article at Boxes and Arrows, Implementing a…
April 21, 2005
Jared Spool in Philly
Just got back from Jared Spool’s lecture (organized by PhiCHI—thanks!). He was…
April 17, 2005
Faceted Folksonomy
One of the next phases for creating more useful folksonomies will likely…
March 7, 2005
Folksonomy vs. the Desktop Metaphor
With all the discussion of folksonomies, and especially tags, I’ve heard little…
February 3, 2005
Art imitates tags
There seems to have been an explosion of folksonomy-related discussion, including Peter…
February 1, 2005
Wired on Folksonomies
Thomas Vander Wal is quoted throughout a new Wired article — Folksonomies…
January 25, 2005
Using Search Engines
Lots of interesting studies at Pew Internet & American Life Project, including…
January 14, 2005
Technorati Tags
Looks like Technorati has jumped on the tagsonomy bandwagon. I thought that…
January 13, 2005
Ethnographic Study of Ethnoclassification
Another useful look at [ethnoclassification/tagsonomy/folksonomy/communal categorization], this time with actual users and…
October 28, 2004
Folksonomy/Ethnoclassification
A few related items this week. I was playingThe ESP Game last…