Liveblogging Peter Morville keynote at NASIG
Information Architecture – Combination of organization, labeling, search, navigation – art + science. Can learn from related fields like HCI but not sufficient. Still emerging discipline. Done by many people who don’t know the term.
3 common lessons for many of his clients:
Multiple ways to find the same information. (e.g. Stanford [...]
If you write for the web, you may find this tip sheet helpful. It discusses making your page easily scannable, optimizing for search engines, and (my favorite, as you may know) good reasons not to write “click here.”
I’m in the Atlanta airport for a good while, waiting for my flight to San Antonio for Open Repositories, so I shelled out for wifi access. And now that I have, I’m going to find things to do online until the last possible minute or until my battery dies!
One good way to pass time [...]
I finally started cataloging my books on LibraryThing over the holiday break. Two things struck me immediately.
1. Library Thing is better than any other website I have ever used. Why?
The sign-up process is identical to the sign-in process! What a concept! Reason enough to upgrade to a paid account and support [...]
One of my favorite blogs right now is Creating Passionate Users, by authors of O’Reilly’s Head First series.
Yesterday’s post led me to Choice = Headaches at the blog Joel on Software. The entry is about the obscene number of ways to turn off a Windows Vista machine (up to 15 by Joel’s [...]