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- Information Architecture
- Usability
- Interaction Design
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20 User Experience Books You Should Own
July 03 2009
UX By Design has a list of 20 UX books they feel every designer should own. See their post 20 User Experience Books You Should Own. Designing Web Navigation is #4 on the list. I’m not sure if this is a ranked list or not, but it’s still nice to appear… read moreBreaking The Rules of Web Design
June 20 2009
via The Hot Strudel… Interesting article over at Web Designer Depot called “10 Web Design Rules You Can Break.” The examples are quite interesting and inspiring. Horizontal scrolling and mystery meat navigation? Why not! I disagree with the fundamental premise of the article though: ALL so-called design rules can be broken–not just… read moreThe Myth of the Compromised Need?
June 17 2009
Jeppe Nicolaisen, from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, has an interesting forthcoming article in JASIST: Nicolaisen, J. (in press). Compromised need and the label effect: An examination of claims and evidence Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 1-6 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21129 In a nutshell, he puts… read moreExperience Strategy @ Johnny Holland
June 06 2009
I previously reviewed Subject To Change on this blog. Steve Baty now has a good summary of experience stragtegy in a recent article on Johnny Holland. He takes the definition of experience strategy from Adaptive Path’s Subject To Change and dissects it, phrase for phrase. From the book: An experience strategy is… read moreDesigning Web Navigation – In Chinese!
June 03 2009
Just after I got the Japanese edition of my book, I learned that it’s also available in Chinese. Apparently it’s been out since March 2009, but I didn’t even know they were working on a translation of it. This is good news, though, so I’m not going to complain. read moreJune 02 2009
The Japanese version of Designing Web Navigation is out. Here are some photos on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/securecat/3578594476/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazuhito/3571197567/ Thanks to everyone who made that possible! read moreC-Inspector: Task-Based Category Testing
May 12 2009
Steffen Schilb is at it again. First came CardSort. Now he’s developed another interesting tool to test your information architecture called C-Inspector: “C–Inspector is a web–based application that helps you to test the information architecture of your website. By analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data collected through the remote test, you… read moreMay 08 2009
Fast Company has an interesting piece on information visualization: Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design? Author Michael Cannell is placing big bets on the future of info viz: Designers have historically excelled at finding insightful ways of looking at complex problems. Visualization will likely play a prominent role as… read moreJournal of Information Architecture, Issue 1, Volume 1
May 05 2009
The first issue of the Journal of Information Architecture (JofIA) has finally arrived. I contributed a piece on uncertainty. Here’s the table of contents: Dorte Madsen Editorial: Shall We Dance? pp. 1-5 Gianluca Brugnoli Connecting the Dots of User Experience pp. 6-15 Helena Francke Towards an Architectural Document Analysis pp. 16-36 Andrew Hinton The Machineries of Context pp.… read moreAuftritt im Fools Garden - Sa. 2.5.
May 01 2009
Hallo an alle, die in Hamburg sind. Meine Band–Helmut and the Lampshades–wird morgen am Samstag den 2.5. mit unserem neuen Programm im Fools Garden auftreten. -> Spoken-Word: Jazz-Arrangements zu den Erzählungen, so wie Songs von Neil Young und eigene Stücke. Mehr Details auf unserer Website: http://lampshadejazz.wordpress.com/ read moreEuropean Commission: Design as a driver of user-centred innovation
April 27 2009
Jan over at The Hot Strudel pointed this out. Thanks, Jan. As a term and concept in business, “design thinking” has been around for a while. See for instance Victor Lombardi’s collection of design thinking-related materials. In the Spring of 2008, the Harvard Business Review finally picked up on the topic.… read moreApril 13 2009
The 3D tag cloud isn’t new, but I came across one in real life on a Sydney tours site. WordPress has been offering a 3D tag cloud for a while now, developed by Roy Tanck. I’m not a huge fan of tag clouds as a navigation mechanism in general. They’ll probably… read moreCommercial Ethnography - My Presentation at Walden U.
April 07 2009
Tricia Ryan, an instructional designer at Laureate Higher Education Group, Inc. where she develops courses for Walden University, picked up my Commercial Ethnography presentation from the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam and used it for a class. Here’s the online synched slideshow of my presentation. Those of you who know me… read moreWorkshops in Hamburg - Extended Early Bird
April 06 2009
If you haven’t registered for Lou Rosenfeld’s or my workshops in Hamburg in May, you can still do it at the early bird price, which has been extended to April 30, 2009. See more details and register at http://www.uxworkshops.com Or see a previous blog post summarizing the event on this blog. [...] read moreMarch 31 2009
In my workshops on navigation design, I relate sitemaps to eating eggs: first they were bad for, then they were good for you, then bad, and then good in small doses. So what’s the deal: are sitemaps as a navigation mechanism good or bad? Back in the day, we used to… read moreAlso find James on:
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