Category: Information Architecture

Rosenfeld and Morville have posted the results of their first two surveys toward a new edition of their seminal Polar Bear Book. (My responses to the first survey were noted in this entry here at Extra! Extra!)

In SEO, Information Architecture and Interface Design, Shari Thurow writes: The most important building block of SEO is the information architecture. If you want your HTML/XHTML, audio, video, and image files to generate qualified search engine traffic, the key ingredient to making these files appear relevant are the information architecture and the interface that communicates…

Todd just sent around this BBC News article discussing a US study that found thatsearch users stop at page three and that, in fact, “Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results.” This jibes with my own personal experience. I rarely even go…

Dan Brown is a brilliant information architect and content management strategist with a forthcoming book called Communicating Design, about producing IA deliverables for websites. On his blog, Green Onions, he posted a few months ago about an emerging design pattern he’s identified related to managing incoming information. He describes the object model thusly: The People…

If we accept that it’s true that these are the “four modes of seeking information”: Known-item Exploratory Don

Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville are working on a third edition of the “Polar Bear” book, aka Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O’Reilly), and in preparation for this they have posted a brief survey. I filled it out: Question 1: What’s obviously new in IA? Over the past five years, what major trend(s)…