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 [...]
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Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability
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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 [...]
