Category: Information Architecture

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)…

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…

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…