| Links: A Visit with vivid studios: Information Design in Action
Once upon a time, when the Web was merely a twinkle in the academic eye, vivid studios existed in a few rooms of a Los Altos, California, house. It was Fall 1990, when Nathan Shedroff, J. Sterling Hutto, and Ken Fromm launched a spare-time business focusing on research and interface design. Over the last seven and a half years, vivid has grown, expanding into books, CD-ROMs, and ultimately, the Web.
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Diagrams are an essential tool for communicating information architecture and interaction design in Web development teams. This document discusses the considerations in development of such diagrams, outlines a basic symbology for diagramming information architecture and interaction design concepts, and provides guidelines for the use of these elements. [jjg.net 31/01/2001]
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Over a series of five articles, I'll use a real project example to demonstrate how we applied comprehensive Usability theories and methodologies in the development of the information architecture for an intranet. [Intranet Journal 2001]
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The authors describe Sapient’s development of experience models and the collaboration that takes place among researchers, visual design communicators and information architects. Case examples illustrate the value of experience models, most importantly as tools to identify strategic business and design opportunities not previously considered by clients. [LOOP: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education 08/2001]
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Until either my webhost or my bosses ask me to take it down, here is a document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage. The research methods and synthesis they went through is pretty interesting, and hopefully some of the process, artifacts and outcomes documented might be useful for web design practitioners. [Blackbeltjones 27/12/2002] PDF file 7.8MB
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Conducting a competitive analysis is an important part of the job if you're a usability engineer or information architect. A good competitive analysis not only produces usability metrics but also aids decision makers in their strategic goal-setting and planning. Done right, a good competitive analysis can steer a Web development project in the right direction. The day will come when you're sitting happily at your desk
and someone from marketing or business development will come into your office
and ask you to do a competitive analysis for them. The company is launching a
news site or portal, and the decision makers want to be sure that their site
will stand up to the competition. [IBM Developerworks 10/2002]
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Taken from a purely theoretical point of view, the point of information architecture is to connect users with content. That's why it's so important to survey the information needs of your site's users and to inventory the content assets you wish to serve: text, images, applications, databases, and so on. And you need to do this research before you begin designing the architecture.
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This presentation explains a unique approach to guiding and
managing implementation of a pattern-based enterprise-wide
architecture at a large institution. It reviews the
organizational structures created to support the architecture
and to address the infrastructure issues that are
prerequisite to its successful implementation. Finally, it
summarizes the status of the projects currently being
implemented under the guidelines of the University
Information System Architecture. (Nicholas C. Laudato, Dennis J. DeSantis, University of Pittsburgh, 1996)
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Through a study of web site design practice, we observed that designers employ multiple representations of web sites as they progress through the design process, and that these representations allow them to focus on different aspects of the design. Designers also employ multiple tools during the course of a project, including graphic design, web development, presentation, and word processing software, as well as pen and paper. Sketching on paper is especially important during the design exploration phase of a project, when designers wish to explore many design possibilities quickly without focusing on low-level details. Web site design tools intended to support the early phases of the design process should employ informal interaction techniques, should support multiple site representations, and should integrate well with other applications that designers use regularly. [Mark W. Newman and James A. Landay, University of California, Berkeley]
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Before you start any content management project, whether in-house or outsourced, to be sure you know what you want from the system. Once you understand the goals and objectives of the project it is important that you find an owner or leader who can manage the project internally. This person should have the right combination of skills and a broad understanding of the system. A person limited to programming, or editing skills will not be able to drive the entire project to a successful outcome.
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