The Archives
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05.22.07Meet Stephen CollinsStephen Collins is the Founder and Chief Troublemaker at acidlabs. Recognised as one of Australia's leading proponents of participatory culture, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and social networking, he is driven by a need to help people and organisations effect change in their capacity to retain, distribute and share knowledge. He has extensive consulting experience for a diverse client base across government and private enterprise and has expertise in social media and networking, knowledge management, web strategy, information architecture and user experience. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="160" caption="Image credit - Ruth Ellison"][/caption] He is a member of Social Media Today and Social Media Club, industry ...
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04.23.07IA and UX jobs - what makes the cut?Apparently it's pretty hard to pin down, as this job ad at Read/Write Web and posted by OddCast shows. On reading, to me this looks like a marketing/product management role and has very little to do with IA or UX. On the other hand, this role at Getty Images is plum, although very much at the management end of the spectrum and probably fairly divorced from the day-to-day work. Many people in the IA and UX fields work across both information architecture and user experience/user centered design (ah, the U*D acronym!), despite the skill sets being quite different. My head is ...
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04.12.07Blog usabilityOver at I’d Rather Be Writing, Tom Johnson has published an excellent post on improving the user experience for readers of your blog. Entitled Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences, it's a very thorough summary of things you can do to make using your blog easier for your users. Looks to me like I really need to get around to finishing off that new skin for acidlabs... Watch this space!
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01.22.07Matthew Hodgson is blogging - IAs take noteMy good friend Matthew Hodgson, after much prompting (some from me), has begun his own blog, Matt's Musings. Matthew is a very smart guy, particularly on the subjects of information architecture and knowledge management, particularly the social and psychological motivations behind those subject areas. If you're at all interested in IA, you should check out his blog and add his feed to your reader.
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01.10.07Visualising informationMore often than not, people use text to transmit information. But it's not necessarily the most efficient way to do it. Over at Boing Boing, David Pescovitz has sent us in the direction of the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. I've tried more and more recently to use non-textual methods to get my concepts across. I'm no expert yet, but I'm making progress. The table is overwhelming, and as Seth notes, imperfect. But it's an excellent resource nonetheless.
