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wireframe goodness

strange systems: Using Wireframes is a terrific essay on wireframes. I’m bummed that I can’t tell anything about […]

a thought

navigation is information architecture made visible. p.s. this is my one thousandth entry, according to movable type.

relationships

All the fuss over findability resulting from Peter’s article and the many insightful comments led me to think […]

I’m number one!

And number ten. Which means I’m the bookends of IA, I suppose. It feels amazing to have Boxes […]

under the ground

I found Lessons from the London Undeground in my inbox this a.m. and read it with some doubt: […]

Sorting it out

Finally got around to finishing Sorting Things Out (thanks Caltrain!) and I have mixed feelings. It is desperately […]

I ask the dumb questions

so you don’t have to. Thank goodness Samantha Baily has the smart answers. Boxes and Arrows: Unraveling the […]

Your perspective is showing

Ever since I’ve been reading Sorting Things Out , I look at classification schemes differently. When I saw […]

design damn you!

Another christina sent me this article: Reduced to a look and a feel “It alarms me when I […]

those are words i love to hear

Brad pointed me to Design Interact: Feature on “Herman Miller RED”. On the second page, in big red […]

breadcrumbs

Location, Path & Attribute Breadcrumbs was Keith Instone’s poster at ASIS&T’s IA summit. If you dont’ mind holding […]

what i learned

I learned a lot of things at the summit, from the esoteric to the remarkably practical. Running the […]

Conference gets ugly

My magic moment from the conference was when Matt Jones taught me the new “IA gang sign.” Here […]

people and papers

Peter Morville’s new Social Network Analysis is a pretty sweet essay on the social network Peter used to […]

le site du jour

Several blogs pointed to The New Architecture of Informationwith the blurb “The first generation of Websites has been […]

I derrida you….

I don’t remember the last time I saw an explanation of deconstructionism’s relevence to information architecture… can you? […]

jesse rocks the house

jjg.net: ia/recon “In the minds of many outside our discipline, ‘information architecture’ has already become synonymous with ‘usability’. […]

manage that knowledge!

If you are an Information Architect (or want to look just like one) this is probably the month […]

personal organization

kottke is trying to create a personal schema/taxonomy. I know there are heaps of IA’s trolling this place, […]

we could be heros

Great Infonomists awards great thinking and innovation in the field of information science.

Sorting it all out

Information Design Using Card Sorting — or IA using Card Sorting if you prefer– this is a solid […]

and the jaw hits the floor

Flexible Search and Navigation using Faceted Metada is required reading. My gosh, it’s swell. Completely thought through ideas, […]