Category: Information Architecture

  • Let's say there are four modes of seeking information

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

  • New edition of IA bible in the works

    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)…

  • Wildly Appropriate IA blog

    I’ve been reading Dan Klyn’s blog, Wildly Appropriate (found it via his signature on an IA mailing list) recently and he’s a great source of valuable links and trenchant insights about user experience, findability, SEO, and related subjects. If I have one complaint about his blog, it’s that his Flash-font-replacement blog entry titles break my…

  • Rethinking sitemaps and homepages

    Following up on the link to Derek Powazek’s article in a List Apart, here’s Keith Robinson has a similar take on the role of a home page in a site’s information architecture: Part of this problem stems from the idea that items on a Web site can’t live in more than one place within a…