Resmini started off with an illustration of the change in users’ experience of traveling to Phoenix over the past 10 years, showing that it’s easier to organize and “save” the experience now, but still not optimal. “Do we have to play a tiresome game anytime we engage in complex experiences bridging different media?” Resmini’s speculation [...]
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IA Summit notes: Resmini & Rosati on “Pervasive IA”
Posted in experience integration, IA Summit, information architecture, user experience design on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Influencing strategy by design
Posted in design strategy, IA Summit, information architecture, user experience design on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Really enjoyed the half-day workshop on this topic provided by Luke Wroblewski at the IA Summit today. If you’re curious about this subject you can read my tweets from the workshop on Twitter. Or, for a quick overview see this interview with Luke.
IxDA booklist
Posted in design, documentation, experience integration, information architecture, Uncategorized, user experience design, web design, tagged books, experience design, interaction design, IxDA, reading list, visual design on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Cool Flickr collections
Posted in documentation, findability, information architecture, innovation, tagged flickr, pattern library on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Stephen Bell on “Design Thinking”
Posted in experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0, Uncategorized, 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 [...]
Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City
Posted in experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0, Uncategorized on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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, Uncategorized, web design, tagged experience design, experience integration, findability, information architecture, innovation, technology, web design on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Dan Brown’s Communicating Design
Posted in documentation, information architecture, web design, tagged communication, design, diagramming, documentation, information archecture, usability on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 | Leave a Comment »
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?
