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Stories tagged with: Information Architecture
Peter Morville on Jesse James Garrett — the IA role, discipline and community « Matt’s Musings
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/peter-morville-on-je...
Matt looks at IA issues - on role, discipline and community.
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Submitted by magia3e
13 months, 1 week, 3 days, 14 hours agoTags: Information Architecture, garrett, community
IAs vs BAs - the IKEA model « Matt’s Musings
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/ias-vs-bas/
Matt describes the work of information architects by using a similie -- IKEA and industrial designers
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Submitted by magia3e
15 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours agoTags: Information Architecture, business analysis
Tasks for bursty IAs? Jesse James Garrett to the rescue
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/tasks-for-bursty-ias...
Matt finds a way to describe information architecture tasks to those who prefer their IAs to talk in terms of tasks and outputs than effective delivery of services.
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Submitted by magia3e
16 months, 1 day, 9 hours agoTags: bursty, Information Architecture, jesse james garrett
IA Tools - Understanding your users through Personas
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/ia-tools-understandi...
Matt writes: "Creating Personas is an important part of understanding your users, whether it's for a system or for a comms strategy"
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Submitted by magia3e
16 months, 1 day, 9 hours agoTags: personas, Information Architecture, analysis
Writing the five minute persona
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http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/06/09/writing-the-five-m...
Lisa Reichelt puts a good case forward for the use of personas. Like Lisa, I find them an excellent tool for communicating design concepts and validating requirements - to developers as well as end users. Personas, like any other deliverable, can be done in light- and heavy-weight ways.
Personas tell a story - generally, the story of a representative business client performing a task that is enabled/provided by the new system/methodology/job description under design.
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Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text « Matt’s Musings
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/semantic-analysis-ma...
"This is a truly awesome piece of IA work", says Donna Maurer. "He analysed a large volume of unstructured text and designed a framework to rewrite it in a consistent, machine-readable, human-readable way"
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Submitted by magia3e
16 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours agoTags: Information Architecture, semantic analysis, medical
Knowledge should be free and nakey
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http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/knowledge-should-be-...
Matt writes: "I love cartoons and Rugrats is still one of my favs. While a cartoon, it provides an amazing insight into the psychology of both children, in the way the characters are depicted misunderstanding what they hear, usually by taking metaphors literally and speaking in malapropisms, and of adults, in the ways they react to child behaviour.
I remember watching a particular Rugrats episode where Tommy decided that clothing was optional. "
Like Matt, I believe knowledge should be free.
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Submitted by facibus
16 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours agoTags: knowledge, Knowledge Management, Information Architecture
Danger UXB: Why is UneXpected Behaviour still a problem?
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http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/23/danger-uxb-why-is-...
Unexpected behaviour is a user-centered design issue. It is where you get, well, unexpected behaviour. Imagine clicking on a link that says “Search” and it takes you back to the site home page. Hmm. Oh wait, in the top right hand corner of the home page there is a search widget. If you miss it, or even if you don’t, you will be annoyed because the system behaviour was unexpected.
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Submitted by facibus
16 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 11 hours agoTags: User Centered Design, Information Architecture
The Permaculture Approach to Information
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http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/21/the-permaculture-a...
Permaculture is a system of sustainable agriculture. My late father was a big fan of it, and I’ve designed my own gardens along permaculture principles in the past. Two of the principles that apply themselves nicely to information architecture and information management are:
* Rarely use one thing for one purpose alone
* Think holistically: look at everything as part of the system
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Submitted by facibus
16 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours agoTags: Information Architecture, Knowledge Worker 2.0, Permaculture
Meta-Thinking and the Thinking Information Architect
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http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/11/meta-thinking-and-...
Yaro Starak got me thinking about meta-thinking. While he writes from the perspective of a web entrepreneur, there are a lot of points in common between the way he thinks about things and good information architecture/consulting practice.
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