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Information architecture is to digital spaces what architecture is to physical places
Thursday, February 25th, 2010That’s the catchy line that concludes my definition of information architecture…
Here it is in full (below) and you you can see all the other entrants to the ‘Explain IA’ competition run by Peter Morville of Semantic Studios on flickr: Explain IA
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I love libraries. Especially the new Central Cambridge one!
Friday, February 5th, 2010Is it old hat to love your library? Do I care? I’ve always been a big fan and user of libraries. They’re great. They democratised learning, entertainment and access to information before the internet came along.
I could easily digress into the current state of print publishing (too much to say!) or the way technology news [...]
Top SharePoint (MOSS) IA / EIA links and resources (plus my advice for a successful SharePoint IA implementation based on my experience from the coal face)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010I spent a fair bit of 2009 working with (enterprise) information architecture challenges presented by using SharePoint as a replacement for a traditional file storage system.
At the outset I was confident that my ‘transferable’ IA skills could be applied to this situation without too much difficulty. This turned out to be the case, and the [...]
Smashing new book…
Friday, June 12th, 2009I’m a little biased it has to be said as the author is my big brother but the brilliant new Professor Potts book is out: ‘The Smash! Smash! Truck‘. It’s all about recycling told in a refreshing blast of punk style! I hasten to add that it has been read and approved by my 8 [...]
Dovetailing usability with the lean, mean, agile development machine…
Monday, September 8th, 2008To date I haven’t found much notable on the subject of how usability fits into the agile development methodologies and I’m not sure if that’s because there’s not much written on the subject or that I haven’t come across it yet…
So I was pleasantly surprised to find Marc McNeill’s piece on ‘User Centered Design in [...]
