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links for 28 March 2006

March 28, 2006March 28, 2006 Leisa Reichelt

Lots of linky goodness today, including a bunch of links to people blogging their experience of IA Summit 2006, just wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada. Wish I was there! Thanks for the blogging guys :)

“Get some of this” says Kate Moss to Folksonomist

Ben Barron enters the tags vs. taxonomy debate in his own inimitable way

(tags: tags taxonomy tagging informationarchitecture)
Coding Horror: Making Considerate Software

an overview of the Consider Software section of About Face 2.0

(tags: usability interfacedesign interactiondesign)
Liveblogging from IA Summit 2006: Whats Up with Knowledge?

Christopher Fahey liveblogs the keynote from IA summit 2006 – given by David Weinberger, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined

(tags: IASummit2006 conference informationarchitecture liveblogging)

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links for 27 March 2006

March 27, 2006March 28, 2006 Leisa Reichelt

Chris Bliss: Must-See Finale

extreme juggling…. not usually my bag, but v. impressive

(tags: juggling)

mobile: user interface design – the great frontier

March 27, 2006October 21, 2006 Leisa Reichelt2 Comments

I was reading a great post by Russell Beattie recently on handheld stylesheets and the great implementation that Opera have launched on their community portal recently. It took me back to my (not so distant) days finishing up my Masters degree with our digital project. As you may guess, my group did a mobile project.

It was a great little project and it really allowed those of us who’d been working in web for so many years to apply our skills to a different platform and develop some really interesting learnings. For me, I was pretty amazed by what we found with regards to Information Architecture and Interaction Design.

Being a university project, of course there was a lot more research involved than you’d usually have the budget of the time to do for a commercial build. This allowed time for me to definitively show that there were very, very few ID conventions when it comes to interface design for mobile web content.

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links for 24 March 2006

March 24, 2006March 26, 2006 Leisa Reichelt

Popcorn Taxi – CORY DOCTOROW Debates the Digital Future

Date: Wednesday, April, 19th, 2006 Where: Greater Union Bondi Junction Who’s coming?

(tags: Popcorn-Taxi Cory-Doctorow DRM film)
Wayfaring

Another of those social mapping sites, like Platial, which I reviewed earlier. They seem to be v popular don’t they… I wonder if its a passing fad.

(tags: maps SocialNetworks Social travel web2.0 mapping)
Where’s The Search? Re-examining User Expectations of Web Objects

In 2001, Bernard determined that users were able to form a schema for the location of web objects on informational websites. The current study investigates whether users’ expectations have changed since the 2001 study. Changes were found in the expected l

(tags: usability interactiondesign search)
Does Search Need to be in the Upper Right? (UIE)

in which Jared Spool argues that research that shows that users expect search to be located in the upper right side of a website doesn’t mean that its any less usable positioned elsewhere

(tags: usability search interactiondesign)