Thank you to the 20 or so people who came to the IA meet in Sydney organised by Eric from IAWiki. It was great to meet with fellow peers both …
Survey of future and current IA work trends
Lou Rosenfeld has invited the participation in a short survey to detect past and future trends regarding where information architects work, and how much of their work is dedicated to …
The Use of Faceted Classification
Heidi Adkisson has posted on the Use of Faceted Classification in Web Design Practices which examines how e-commerce sites use faceted classification to help people find products. A series of …
Global Information Architecture
Lou Rosenfeld has posted a really interesting blog post on some of his experience regarding Enterprise IA and certain differences in the way culture, language and business models affect the …
What is the value of a corporate taxonomy
OVUM have recently published a interesting research content management report titled, The corporate taxonomy: creating a new order by Eric Woods. The report is available online or as a PDF …
IA and User Experience books from 2003
Jess McMullin from IAslash has post a list of some of the User Experience and Information Architecture books from 2003. Below is the list Universal Principles of Design Condensed design …
Differences between vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology & meta-model
A great article which discusses and looks at the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model. Contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company, …
Card sorting tool by IBM – EZSort (beta)
IBM have a Beta Card-Sorting tool that helps interface designers organize information based on users’ expectations. The software comes with 2 packages – USort and EZCalc, and can be used …
Spanish IA blogs
Blogs en espanol: 1. IA blog – Jarango IA 2. IA, Usabilitad blog – Isopixel 3. Visualizacion de Informacion – Inf@Vis! 4. AIfia – AIfia en espanol En Espanol: Este …
IA Sydney meet last night
Many thanks to Eric Scheid for organising the IA Sydney meet last night, I unfortunately could only make it near the end, but was a pleasure to meet both Eric …
Column Two – a useful weblog on KM and CM
Column Two is an Australian weblog by James Robertson, Managing Director of Step Two Designs, a consultancy based in Sydney on Content Management (CM) and Knowledge Management (KM). The blog …
Information Architecture and Internationalism
Here is a great article by Peter Morville, from Semantic Studios, which comments on the importance of recognising Internationalism in Information Architecture in particular, connecting people from diverse disciplines, countries …
Expanding the Approaches to User Experience article revisit
I revisit the Boxes and Arrows article to read over some of the comments and responses by Jesse James Garrett and others regarding the article titled, Expanding the Approaches to …
Peterme.com is back online
Peter Merholz’s blog site, PeterMe is back online with a first post today. Peter has written extensively on Information architecture and Interaction design and his site contains a wealth of …
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA)
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. http://www.aifia.org