Posted in design, documentation, experience integration, information architecture, user experience design, web design, tagged experience design, visual design, books, interaction design, IxDA, reading list on August 17, 2008 | No Comments »
David Malouf recently posted the wonderful IxDA booklist he and Will Evans compiled to the IA Institute’s discussion list. Here are a few other must-reads I would add to their list.
Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous
Michael Bierut, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
Richard [...]
Posted in documentation, findability, information architecture, innovation, tagged flickr, pattern library on August 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Peter Morville’s Search Patterns is definitely worth checking out, as is dgray_xplane’s Visual Thinking. I also love this Flickr hack dgray_explane came up with to illustrate a concept for browsing the future.
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
