Treejack
august 2009 by ohskylab
"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.
tools
ia
architecture
testing
ux
structure
navigation
usability
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.
august 2009 by ohskylab
Designing for Faceted Search | UIE
may 2009 by ohskylab
"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."
usability
ia
ux
taxonomy
facetedsearch
interface
navigation
may 2009 by ohskylab
Cooper Journal: Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
may 2009 by ohskylab
"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.
design
ia
ux
career
jobs
hci
branding
may 2009 by ohskylab
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta
april 2009 by ohskylab
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
web
design
ia
trends
visualisation
maps
april 2009 by ohskylab
The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it
february 2009 by ohskylab
"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."
google
ia
ux
seo
web
february 2009 by ohskylab
ecommr: a collection of e-commerce interface and design elements
november 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
via:paul.irish
web
design
shopping
ecommerce
inspiration
interface
ux
ia
november 2008 by ohskylab
Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
september 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
web
flow
ia
ux
usability
psychology
attention
september 2008 by ohskylab
Jumpchart » Home
april 2008 by ohskylab
Great idea, massively overpriced.
web
architecture
ia
sitemaps
ui
content
april 2008 by ohskylab
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography
april 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
typography
design
web
ia
april 2008 by ohskylab
NextUpdate.com Home | Next Update
february 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
software
design
ia
february 2008 by ohskylab
User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
february 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
usability
design
ia
ux
web
jakobnielsen
february 2008 by ohskylab
Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
january 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
research
google
reading
education
ia
ux
january 2008 by ohskylab
Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
january 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
boxesandarrows
forms
web
ux
usability
interface
ia
search
advanced
january 2008 by ohskylab
8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in
january 2008 by ohskylab
"Eight additional mistakes we've seen as we watch users try to create accounts and sign into the site."
usability
ux
design
forms
login
ia
january 2008 by ohskylab
outbreak » Messing up the interface (written on December 13th, 2007 by Marko Mrdjenovic)
january 2008 by ohskylab
"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.
forms
ux
ia
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
SAKUZAKU » Blog Archive » I’ve Reached My Limit: Approaches to Character Limit Cutoffs
january 2008 by ohskylab
"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 [...] ?
forms
ux
ia
usability
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and its URL « Derivadow.com
december 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
design
rest
ia
web
urls
usability
ux
december 2007 by ohskylab
Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
november 2007 by ohskylab
"The 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective."
web2.0
web
trends
visualisation
ia
november 2007 by ohskylab
Blasting the Myth of the Fold - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
november 2007 by ohskylab
"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
fold
ia
usability
analytics
podcast
audio
scrolling
november 2007 by ohskylab
In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
october 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
analytics
usability
web
ux
metrics
statistics
methodology
ia
october 2007 by ohskylab
The Information Architect as Change Agent - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
october 2007 by ohskylab
"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?"
business
change
management
ia
october 2007 by ohskylab
Summary of my Playful IAs argument (Leapfroglog)
september 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
design
games
interface
ia
september 2007 by ohskylab
Web Application Form Design
september 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
web
forms
usability
ui
ia
september 2007 by ohskylab
Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » IA for beginners: long pages work.
september 2007 by ohskylab
"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.
usability
scrolling
design
web
ia
ux
fold
september 2007 by ohskylab
Adactio: Journal - Wireframework
august 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
blueprint
css
framework
web
ia
august 2007 by ohskylab
Jesse James Garrett: information architecture resources
june 2007 by ohskylab
"This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience."
ia
usability
design
architecture
information
web
june 2007 by ohskylab
Coding Horror: Removing The Login Barrier
june 2007 by ohskylab
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
usability
login
web
ui
ia
june 2007 by ohskylab
IA One Sheeters
may 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
ia
usability
documentation
web
ux
may 2007 by ohskylab
Better Content Management through Information Architecture - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
march 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
cms
ia
web
ux
content
march 2007 by ohskylab
Good Experience - The Page Paradigm
march 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
usability
navigation
ia
ux
web
march 2007 by ohskylab
Garrett Dimon / Documenting Interface Design
january 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
documentation
design
ia
usability
web
ued
january 2007 by ohskylab
Andy Budd::Blogography: Heuristics for Modern Web Application Development
january 2007 by ohskylab
"Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts."
usability
heuristics
design
testing
web
ia
hci
ued
january 2007 by ohskylab
Fredy Ore - Digital UK Euro IA 2006 Presentation, Berlin » SlideShare
december 2006 by ohskylab
"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.
slideshow
friends
gu
digital
uk
switchover
ia
december 2006 by ohskylab
Intelligent Experience Design » Articles » Marissa Mayer of Google: Speed Good, AJAX Not So Good
december 2006 by ohskylab
"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
google
web
ia
usability
search
december 2006 by ohskylab
Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design
december 2006 by ohskylab
"UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design."
web2.0
design
usability
ui
ia
web
accessibility
december 2006 by ohskylab
Functioning Form - Web Application Form Design Expanded
december 2006 by ohskylab
"There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details."
forms
usability
design
web
ia
ui
december 2006 by ohskylab
Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters
december 2006 by ohskylab
Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.
usability
forms
design
ui
eyetracking
ia
web
december 2006 by ohskylab
Information Architects Japan » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography (1)
december 2006 by ohskylab
"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."
typography
design
web
usability
ia
december 2006 by ohskylab
Accessibility or Help links? » AlastairC
october 2006 by ohskylab
"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw
accessibility
help
ia
web
october 2006 by ohskylab
swipr.com
october 2006 by ohskylab
"A toolset that allows Information Architects to create an integrated and interactive deliverable from standard Visio files."
ia
visio
wireframes
tools
web
sitemaps
october 2006 by ohskylab
In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic
october 2006 by ohskylab
"What I’ve really longed for is an ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser. No flash, no java, darn it - no server even - just a pure HTML / CSS / Javascript solution."
wireframes
design
firefox
javascript
web
prototyping
ia
october 2006 by ohskylab
clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture
august 2006 by ohskylab
"Records the position of every click on a page, building up a virtual heat map of visitor activity. It also provides user behaviour analysis, segmentation and tracking."
statistics
web
ajax
usability
analytics
heatmap
ia
august 2006 by ohskylab
Etre - Get Results.
june 2006 by ohskylab
"We design, manage and deliver profitable user experiences."
usability
design
accessibility
web
agencies
eyetracking
ia
london
company
june 2006 by ohskylab
Seth's Blog: What I learned from eye tracking
june 2006 by ohskylab
The folks at etre were kind enough to do some eye tracking analysis of Squidoo [...] The blue dot shows you where the user is focusing her eyesite... it doesn't measure peripheral vision, which is crucial.
usability
eyetracking
web
video
ui
testing
ia
june 2006 by ohskylab
Dogmas Are Meant to be Broken: An Interview with Eric Reiss - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
may 2006 by ohskylab
"It’s not particularly spectacular, and it’s not the Ten Commandments. These are simply why users find [some] sites and devices less usable than others."
design
usability
web
dogma
boxesandarrows
ia
may 2006 by ohskylab
The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
may 2006 by ohskylab
"Just as IA/UX/ID designers were settling into a comfortable working rhythm, the next step in the never-ending information architect’s challenge arrived: designing for rich internet applications (RIA)."
design
wireframes
ia
ajax
web
may 2006 by ohskylab
AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]
may 2006 by ohskylab
"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.
accessibility
ajax
javascript
dom
scripting
screenreaders
usability
ia
web
may 2006 by ohskylab
Latest Accessibility News on Accessify | AJAX, Accessibility & Screen Readers
may 2006 by ohskylab
"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m
web
dom
scripting
ajax
accessibility
usability
ia
screenreaders
may 2006 by ohskylab
Skip Navigation
april 2006 by ohskylab
"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."
accessibility
article
css
ia
links
ui
usability
wai
web
xhtml
skip
navigation
april 2006 by ohskylab
Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips [Usability and Information Architecture]
august 2005 by ohskylab
"The seven easy tips below will drastically improve a site's usability for screen reader users, as well as all other visitors."
accessibility
browsers
screen
readers
usability
web
xhtml
semantics
ia
jaws
screenreaders
august 2005 by ohskylab
Ajax Mistakes
july 2005 by ohskylab
"Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems."
ajax
javascript
ui
accessibility
ia
july 2005 by ohskylab
What is information architecture?
may 2005 by ohskylab
"Discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture."
ia
usability
web
development
article
reference
may 2005 by ohskylab
Page Description Diagrams
april 2005 by ohskylab
"In essence, a text-only alternative to wireframes."
design
web
ia
wireframes
tools
usability
april 2005 by ohskylab
Digital Web Magazine - Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design
february 2005 by ohskylab
"Information architecture and Web design are often considered mutually exclusive."
ia
web
development
architecture
february 2005 by ohskylab
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