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2004 December 12 • ia, process

The Future of IA

presentation: Download an excellent presentation on the Future of IA, PDF and PPT formats.

2004 December 2 • ia, process

Stay Clear of Stereotypes

article: Don't get caught in the 'stereotype trap' when you create personas for your Web site's persuasive architecture"
[credit: GrokDotCom]

2004 December 2 • ia, process

Keep Personas Simple

article: Ad-Hoc Personas & Empathetic Focus; 'Personas don't have to be rocket science.' Keep it simple, go with what you know, let the rest fall in place.
[credit: GUUUI]

2004 November 23 • ia

Faceted Navigation

article: A Primer on Faceted Navigation and Guided Navigation. Insight on what may be next for site navigation. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]

2004 October 15 • ia, resources

IA wiki

website: A collaborative knowledge base for the topic of Information Architecture.

2004 October 15 • ia, tools

Card sorting tools

list: A summary of currently-available card sorting tools. [credit: Column Two]

2004 September 24 • ia

5 ways (+ or - 2)

What are the possible ways to organize things?
For information, there are 7. For interfaces, there are at least 4, identified on a mailing list: Things, Tasks, Tools, and Time. [credit: antenna]

2004 September 19 • ia

Information architecture guidelines

article: Seeing IA guidelines as a singular blob to be stowed away in a stand-alone publication or site misses the point of documentation (and maybe this explains the dearth of comprehensive IA guides?). [credit: Column Two]

2004 September 19 • ia, process

Personas

articles: A new issue of Boxes and Arrows: Extending a Technique: Group Personas, and Making Personas More Powerful: Details to Drive Strategic and Tactical Design.

2004 September 19 • ia, process

Use of Faceted Classification

article: Faceted classification is about finding multiple ways to access the same information. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]

2004 September 12 • ia

Information Architecture is not a Black Box

article: Information Architecture Research, provides quite a few good points and several links to good studies. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]

2004 September 4 • ia, usability

IA Heuristics for Search

article: Guidelines based on the common steps a user takes when searching a site. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]

2004 September 3 • ia

Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space

aticle: Site diagrams can be quite helpful in answering all kinds of website design questions. This article explores how to create the right diagram complete with tips and techniques...

2004 September 3 • ia, process

Questions about card sorting effectiveness

article:. "Carding sorting is one of the most important tools an Information Architect uses to help determine the organization of content. It's a widely used technique, but there are some aspects of card sorting that I find troublesome and lead me to question how the results of card sorting are interpreted and used." [credit: Column Two]

2004 August 27 • ia

Information Architecture Heuristics

article: A vocabulary for explaining what's wrong with most sites. (categories: Jeffrey Veen]

2004 August 21 • design, ia

Content - what to say

article: The purpose of design is to facilitate communication. Choosing what to communicate is the first step. It's content that makes a site work, flow and communicate well with the right tone. That makes it the web designer's problem, because effective communication is our problem. [credit: Web Design from Scratch]

2004 August 18 • ia, process

Representing content and data in wireframes

article: Presenting wireframes and in specific wireframe data, to clients. To quote:

Sample data can make or break a wireframe, whose purpose is typically to illustrate architecture and interaction. Poorly selected sample data can end up clouding the wireframe or distracting stakeholders from its purpose. By codifying the types of sample content they employ in their deliverables, information architects can create a coherent narrative to illustrate a website's functionality.
[credit: Column Two]

2004 August 18 • ia, process

Information architecture heuristics

article: A set of questions that are quite useful for just about every IA-related project. [credit: Column Two]

2004 August 8 • ia, process

Information design: The understanding discipline

article: Explores the origins and evolution of "information design," how it relates to information architecture, and its contribution to the broader user experience. [credit: uxnetblog]

2004 August 8 • design, ia

Adaptive Menu Design

article: 80% of usability is Navigation. That's what the gurus tell us. If you get the navigation right it seems almost guaranteed that users will be able to find what they are looking for on your application or site. But getting the navigation right is not that easy. Several layers of design factor into effective menu systems. [credit: Usability Views]