#ia (83 links)
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess howtomakesenseofanymess.com
- “Useful Sections for a Design System Reference Site,” an article from SuperFriendly superfriendlydesign.systems
- LukeW | Netflix Makes Content the UI lukew.com
- Treejack optimalworkshop.com
A Treejack survey will show you the parts of your IA that work well, and the bits that need more work. Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
The power of faceted search lies in the ability of users to create their own custom navigation by combining various perspectives rather than forcing them through a specific path.
"So, is Interaction Design a dead-end job? As an expertise, no. But as a discrete service offering or a career path, I say absolutely." Slightly inflammatory; read on for the significant caveat.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
- The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it multichannelmerchant.com
While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.
A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
- It Could Be Worse » Blog Archive » Improving Freecycle timandkathy.co.uk
- Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.
- Garrett Dimon / Templates & Stencils for Visio & Omnigraffle v1.garrettdimon.com
- Jumpchart » Home jumpchart.com
Great idea, massively overpriced.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography informationarchitects.jp
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
- NextUpdate.com Home | Next Update nextupdate.com
We’re creating a simple bug and issue tracker and blogging about it along the way. We think it’s a great way to get feedback and keep everyone updated on our status.
Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
- OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot urlgreyhot.com
Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.
- Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look.
Eight additional mistakes we've seen as we watch users try to create accounts and sign into the site.
- outbreak » Messing up the interface (written on December 13th, 2007 by Marko Mrdjenovic) friedcellcollective.net
"Let’s say you’re designing an interface for a contact form. There are a lot of people involved in the problem and they all have their own issues they want resolved." Contrived but useful example of how forms can get compllicated.
- SAKUZAKU » Blog Archive » I’ve Reached My Limit: Approaches to Character Limit Cutoffs blog.wearesakuzaku.com
"In real life, it’s important (and polite) not to obtrusively interrupt someone when they’re in the middle of something, and, of course, this carries over to website usability as well. So, how should we enforce form field character limits [...] ?
If however, you start off by thinking about web pages, site maps, left hand navigations and visual design you will very quickly photoshop yourself into a corner. You will find it difficult to create a web of data.
"Jeff Parks [and] Milissa Tarquini [...] talk about how this long held rule in web design is being de-bunked by web analytics and user testing, as well as how this will impact design and development processes based on screen resolution and browser compati
- In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Click streams have made room for bounce rates, search analytics, and so much more. If we play our cards right, we can reduce and synthesize the raw data and give our clients more meaningful information that foments action.
- The Information Architect as Change Agent - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
How many projects have you worked on where the implementation team gave any consideration to the way people would be affected by the changes the new system would impose on them?
- Summary of my Playful IAs argument (Leapfroglog) leapfrog.nl
A lot of traditional IA practice doesn’t make sense anymore. Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces.
- Web Application Form Design uie.com
Variations in the alignment of input fields, their respective labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » IA for beginners: long pages work. poorbuthappy.com
"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis (which I define as “the practice of adding too much structure when it’s not needed and even gets in the way”)." But not all the time, naturally.
- Adactio: Journal - Wireframework adactio.com
Unless I’m creating cookie-cutter sites, I don’t think a CSS framework can help me. That said, I think a framework like Blueprint has its place.
This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.
- Coding Horror: Removing The Login Barrier codinghorror.com
Even if you can't avoid an eventual login, it is possible to make the user's login process nearly seamless. Too many sites take a ham-handed, completely traditional approach to logins. You can do much, much better than the abysmal login barrier status quo
- IA One Sheeters iaonesheeters.com
One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They're like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company.
- Better Content Management through Information Architecture - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
To implement a successful content management system, we have to go beyond business process and technology and understand how the organization, as an organism, interacts with and uses its content.
- Good Experience - The Page Paradigm goodexperience.com
On any given Web page, users will either: 1. click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, 2. or click the Back button on their Web browser.
- Garrett Dimon / Documenting Interface Design garrettdimon.com
I’ve done my best to migrate away from traditional documentation methods and find ways that actual help others visualize what the end product should look like.
Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts.
- User experience design resources (Dey Alexander Consulting) deyalexander.com.au
"Digital UK: Re-engineering the content architecture to communicate the UK’s move to digital television." Fredy's presentation for the 2nd European IA Summit, Berlin 2006.
- Intelligent Experience Design » Articles » Marissa Mayer of Google: Speed Good, AJAX Not So Good paradymesolutions.com
"The study found that users preferred speedy page loads to a greater number of results per page and to ‘highly interactive ajax features’. Although users reported that they preferred more results per page, their expressed desires diverged from their a
- Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design thinkvitamin.com
UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.