“His patent covers computer operations that represent close and distant thoughts. It means he’ll receive royalties for any process that can be represented by flow charts linking chunks of related information together.” What?!
Getting Hosed
“Is your information architecture giving your visitors a hard time? Here’s a primer on the do’s and don’ts of organizing your content.”
Developing Schemas for the Location of Common Web Objects
“An essential ingredient in constructing the content of a website is knowing the typical users’ mental model or ‘schema’ for the characteristic location of web objects on a website. Knowledge of this schema and constructing a site that reflects this should aid in the site’s accessibility. This, in turn, should produce more accurate and faster information retrieval, as well as greater satisfaction with the site. However, little is known about the average users’ schema for the location of web objects on a typical website.”
User-Centricity
“User-centricity constitutes a philosophy to support the design of digital media applications. It draws on and applies theory from product design, human-computer interaction, branding and marketing. User-centricity places the needs of the user at the heart of design.”
Developing Schemas for the Location of Common Web Objects
“An essential ingredient in constructing the content of a website is knowing the typical users’ mental model or ‘schema’ for the characteristic location of web objects on a website. Knowledge of this schema and constructing a site that reflects this should aid in the site’s accessibility. This, in turn, should produce more accurate and faster information retrieval, as well as greater satisfaction with the site. However, little is known about the average users’ schema for the location of web objects on a typical website.”
Partner-Friendly Design
“[The] industry is calling for companies to create feature-oriented sites that can be built into other sites as seamless, integral components. As users engage these features, they’ll hopefully remain clueless that they’ve been temporarily relocated to a new site while they shop, work, or play within a familiar brand environment. The idea is to move throughout the sites in one single, continuous interaction.”
