I am always on the lookout for good articles on taxonomy, because of my interest in the taxonomies of Information Architecture and classic linnean classification of birds. Here are a couple of features from Feb 9 Economist: Names for saleFeb 9th 2006From The Economist print editionThe ancient science of taxonomy might benefit from a little … Read more
The March 2006 issue of Natural History Magazine (the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History) has a cover feature called “Learning to Find Your Way,” studying the biological pathways of spatial memory. Not yet available online, but available at newstands:http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0306/0306_toc.html
Based on a recent request on the IA Institute Job Board, I have compiled some IA/UX salary information resources. As soon as the IAI salary survey comes out, I’ll post a link here. Very few of the postings I receive on the IA Institute Job Board have salary information, but a typical salary/rate conversion is: … Read more
From an online discussion group: Jones, P.H. (2002). Embedded values in process and practice: Interactions between disciplinary practice and formal innovation processes. 11th International Forum on Design Management Research. Boston, June 2002. This academic article discussed the problems with structured process, and the types of informal practices that were adopted by internal communities in spite … Read more
Discussion of GoogleMaps has been lively on my User Interface design lists. Overall ratings for Google Maps are good, but I have problems with the way they locate places based on search. GoogleMapshttp://maps.google.com/Posters say they like that you can drag the map and that the directions appear to be more accurate than MapQuest or Yahoo! … Read more
IA/UX events listings http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/http://www.nngroup.com/events/http://www.uie.com/events/http://louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/http://www.iasummit.org/2005/http://www.humanfactors.com/training/default.aspwww.usability.gov/events/index.htmlInformation
From aifia.org: AIfIA sponsors conferences and events helping to build the practice ofinformation architecture. Learn more about AIfIA’s sponsorship programat http://aifia.org/pg/ia_events_sponsorship.php#000247 ***********September 30, 2004 — AIfIA will sponsor Metadata for Interoperabilityin the Global Corporate Environment, a pre-conference for the DC-2004International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. The one-day pre-conference program takes place on October … Read more
From time to time, I will post some interesting resources and tools in the information architectecture field. Today, you will find a list of Deliverables related to the IA process that were discussed on the AIfIA listserv. Victor Lombardi’s Blue wireframe (looks like a blueprint)http://aifia.org/tools/download/LombardiWireframe.pdf Clifton Evans’ all-blue page… http://www.infostyling.com/examples/Blueprinting_Object1.gif Austin Govella’s recent samples: 1. … Read more
PMerholz says: I’ve found Kevin Crowston’s work on genres of web communications to be essential in how I’m thinking about IA: http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/index.php
Visio stencils – Henrik Olsen’s web prototyping stencils and templateuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://www.guuui.com/issues/02_03_02.php – Michael Angeles’s wireframe stencilsuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://studioid.com/pg/visio_wireframe_stencil.php – Jesse James Garrett’s stencilsuses: flowhttp://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/ – Peter Van Dijk’s stencils (four of them here)uses: sitemaps, isometric sitemaps, prototyping, wireframes, flowhttp://iabook.com/template.htm – Peter Van Dijck’s older stencilsuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://poorbuthappy.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$51
