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 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 [...]
