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humanizing

While visitng Peter Van Dijck’s personal site I noticed a site map with humans interacting with it. I […]

wayfinding is not IA

Moving WebWord > Information Architecture for the Rest of Us is a nice article on wayfinding, but not […]

forever in blue jeans

Finally 1.0 of Denim, the website sketching tool is available. Lots of sweet features, including a zoom tool […]

who are we really

Jesse takes on the big question: who are we as IA’s. Are we the role, or the job? […]

WSJ gets it

Samantha points out Tour The Wall Street Journal Online where they list they ways their redesign has improved […]

a conversation

So I started a conversation with the clever and oh-so helpful Mike Steckel from International SEMATECH about thesauri and their kinfolk. It seems he learned a ton from the argus seminar, and was kind enough to share some of that learning with me.

It proved to be trendously helpful. You wouldn’t not believe how little about organization tools is in english for ordinary people. Kudos to Mike and the former argonauts!

I reproduce it below in hopes it helps some other poor lost fool

my controlling ways

Doing a whole bunch o’ reasearch on the librarian’s art for le book, and was recommended WWW — […]

In Portland

I’m speaking here CHIFOO and I promise a good show. George and I have sworn a battle royal! […]

and the word was good

Lou has moved to movabletype, and so we have permalinks, comments and more importantly, more brillant content than usual to showcase it. This morning I suspect we’re seeign a precurser of the book– a simple, straightforward jargon-free explanation of how to build an IA. Go comment on it!

meta definition

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources made me feel– well– meta! “Metadata is data about data. The term refers to […]

everybody loves IA

In Lou’s latest progress report we find that many professional organizations would love to have the vibrant if […]

taking the measure of the matter

I may have blogged this before, but since these days I’ve been researching methods of selling and quantifying […]

doing it right: a guide

Tess Lispi’s portfolio is more than that: it is a guide to a methodology for a project done […]

what?! It won’t clear up my acne?

Reading Louis Rosenfeld’s Bloug “Now there must be some sort of counter-counter-movement afoot: people who’ve experimented with classification […]

with my little eye

Is that a category I see before me? “Your brain recognizes broad categories of objects – such as […]

another definition from daddy

from IS 249 | Information Architecture | Summer 2001 “Information Architect: 1) The individual who organizes the patterns […]

Wireframes and the art of design

IAwiki: WireFrames has recently been vigorously and lovingly edited by Victor Lombardi, and show a sensible approach to […]

classify me

Web classification is essential (Gerry McGovern) — “Classification (taxonomy, categorization) is to content as mapping is to geography. […]

new kid on the block

David Bloxsom‘s resume/portfolio site includes some very tasty case studies. FYI, He’s also one of the B&A kids….

Cost justifying us

Designing for the Bottom Line (Web Techniques, Dec 2001) “The easiest ROI arguments are those that come with […]

older, but interesting still

Information Architecture “USABILITY IS THE PRIME consideration in the creation of a site’s information architecture. Information architecture concerns […]

time to band together

Community Infrastructure for Information Architects is the birth of a crazy idea– so crazy it just might work. […]

Selling IA, learning from MBAs

At George‘s repeated suggestion, I subscribed to Harvard Business Review. The latest issues seemed to be to be […]

one more time

Tripped over this review of Information Architecture for the Web and this passage reverberated with me “It is […]

Thesaurus Construction

You’ve probably seen this: I saw it earlier, forgot about it, and have returned to print it out […]