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| Book: | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web | |
| Subject: | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Review | |
| Date: | 2000-07-03 09:01:14 | |
| From: | redifuse | |
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Rating:
 
This Book Needs a Rewrite. Fine Scientific Theory Book. A little boring. Not very business practical. Seems like it's written by College Profs about an Abstract Library Science, rather than a real Job that has a real methodology with a checklist of things to do; like pre-flighting a plane before you fly it. They gave no bulleted ToDo list for job tasks. Yeah, it was definitely written by someone who would call their site "The Argus Clearinghouse" instead of "Yahoo!". NOT AT ALL GOOD on the day to day blood and guts business side of IA. !!!! WHERE IS THE SAMPLE "DESIGN DOCUMENT"? WHERE IS THE SIGNOFF? WHERE IS THE QA? Lifecycle? WHERE IS THE DEFINITION OF IN/OUT of SCOPE? Business is documents and signatures. No docs & sigs, no business. -Foolish to approach IA as an Ivory Tower science rather than putting a solid business head on it. Webmonkey's Online Tutorial was much better on putting together a "DD" even though it was too short and too general. This book could be more detailed and broad. IA and ID/UI can really overlap. In some environments, the needs assessment & Process Mapping side of IA becomes the exact same job as a Business Analyst. It would be smart to include that. Any good IA really should be part Business Analyst, anyway. MUST put in some basic Needs Assessment and Project Management Methodologies. -Can't do IA without them. Storyboards were not discussed. Sometimes you have to throw together a PowerPoint Storyboard to get management buy-in. Nor were Process Maps, apart from Site/Page Schematics. -Could have thrown in "Use Cases" and "Actors" instead of only using "Scenarios". Overall: okay, but very incomplete, naive,impractical and boring. |
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