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Some of you already know, but this is the official announcement. As of the end of February (maybe a week earlier), I will no longer be doing long, onsite contracts for a single client. I will be moving to doing shorter and more varied work for clients that are closer to sharing my vision of [...]
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Image © Hugh McLeod – www.gapingvoid.com 2007.
I’m posting this in a (fairly short) lunch break, so it may not be as eloquent as it should be…
I read my friend, Susan’s take on the current “enterprise software should be sexy” heat that’s running today. Started by Scoble, who quite reasonably asked:
Any of you have any [...]
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This weekend I’m in Sydney attending and speaking at Oz-IA 2007. Today was all signal and no noise! Every speaker had great subject matter. Naturally, not every talk totally rocked my world, but it was all good stuff. My favorite of the day was SlideShare’s Rashmi Sinha speaking about their non-approach to [...]
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There’s a fairly new thread over on SIGIA-L at the moment with respect to differentiating complex taxonomies from navigation on a website. Alongside that, how the information architecture of a site doesn’t necessarily conform immediately to either the taxonomy or the navigation.
It’s an interesting thought, and one that I find clients particularly and junior IAs [...]
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Like my friend, Matthew, I have been confirmed as a speaker at Oz-IA 2007.
I will be discussing the issues and hurdles involved in getting business to take IA and UX seriously as a strategic discipline. Here’s my proposal blurb:
Love in an Elevator – Selling the value of IA to business
Is the IA and UX [...]
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I’ve been involved in several conversations in the past couple of weeks where I’ve needed to define what an IA is and does. In one instance, to justify my place on a project.
While those of us that do IA know in our heads what we are, it’s kind of tough to articulate sometimes.
My friend, [...]
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What tools do you use as an IA or UX practitioner to build client interest in the projects you’re doing for them?
If you’re onsite, one of the most effective is to have a project wall – a place where you can put up large-format prints of various outputs you’ve generated for the project. Take [...]
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As information architects, we’ve all seen Jesse James Garrett’s seminal Elements of User Experience diagram.
It’s the classic tool used to contextualise the material and environment IAs are working with when assisting in the development of projects designed for web-based delivery. And, it covers the full range of needs, from the very high overall business [...]
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