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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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?
