(With respects to Aarawak for messing with their tag line)
I’ve been thinking recently about the role of documents in an organisations process, and the slowly dawning realisation that they are increasingly irrelevant, barriers to information sharing, and possibly damaging to all that come near them. Ok that may be a little strong, but let me [...]
Simple IA
Organising the world one day at a time
Tag Archives: information architecture
Documents suck, information is cool
Users, visitors and audience types
In a recent discussion / interview with a member of the Eduserv research group (previously known as (Eduserv foundation) which focused on a study soon to be proposed into CSM and HEI, I was asked to define the ‘user requirements’ for content management system project.
Users.., what are ‘users’ when discussing CMS requirements, and are they [...]
Content is still king
We spend a lot of time considering the technology of a particular site, customers are always keen to point out the fact that they ‘need’ features and functions to make their site ‘useful’ and attract users, plans involve the development and design of forums, blogs and web 2.0 features that are a must for the [...]
Information groups
Many websites will go to significant lengths to mage sure that their navigation is put grouped in a meaningful and logical way, (not always logical to the user but logical none the less)
Others however just don’t get it.
Amazon, a huge success story and still my favourite online retailer, is on my opinion guilty of two [...]