The Jan./Feb. 2008 issue of American Libraries features an article by the omnipresent Stephen J. Bell on the benefits of taking a design approach to the delivery of library services. By Googling his name I also came across this interesting handout on “Librarianship by Design” — basically a bibliography of design-related resources for librarians — and the [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Stephen Bell on “Design Thinking”
Posted in experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0, tagged design, experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0, public libraries on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City
Posted in experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0 on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Started reading William J. Mitchell’s Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City over the weekend and am delighted I purchased this book on a whim while Christmas shopping at Borders. This quote alone is almost worth the price of admission ($19.95 in paperback):
“The social and cultural functions of built spaces have become inseparable from [...]
Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability
Posted in experience integration, findability, information architecture, innovation, web design, tagged experience design, experience integration, findability, information architecture, innovation, technology, web design on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability (O’Reilly Books, 2005) is an engaging, readable survey of the many wayfinding and networking technologies that have reconfigured our cultural landscape over the past decade or so. Beginning with a meditation on how the “humble keyword” has teamed with the richness of the World Wide Web to deliver a previously unimaginable [...]
Dan Brown’s Communicating Design
Posted in documentation, information architecture, web design, tagged communication, design, diagramming, documentation, information archecture, usability on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Dan Brown’s Communicating Design contains a wealth of examples of the ten main types of documentation that can inform a web site design. Brown begins by describing three key user needs documents (personas, usability test plans, and usability reports), then moves on to discussing strategy documents (competitive analyses, concept models, and content inventories) and ends [...]
Brave new design world?
Posted in information architecture, web design, tagged information architecture, internet applications, web 2.0, web design on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
With the advent of RIAs and Web 2.0 applications, are we entering a brave new world of web design & information architecture, or is it the same old same old but with a new face? Or does it even make sense to ask the question this way?
