Author: Victor

Luckily found this by accident in my bookmarks…Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction. Once the appetite has been wet there’s the $65 book. Thanks to Peter for the book recommendation.

The AIfIA Job Board serves as a clearinghouse for position postings relating to information architecture and more broadly to information design, interaction design, and HCI. The Job Board is a service for AIfIA members.

Do you practice IA? Want to see what the current spread of salary and benefits looks like? Take the survey now, bask in raw data later.

Lisa Chan surfaces a link to Information Research, a free, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making freely accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. The reviews look like a great way to keep up with new books, and of course there’s a weblog.

This is wonderful. I’d love to see more journals become free and available online, perhaps supported by grants rather than by horrifically expensive subscriptions or association memberships. Otherwise they rot away on library shelves read only by those in academia.

Olivetti: communication through design, a lovely little overview of the company’s design history.

Note to Self: Hotels.com sucks. As a front end to many backends they have little control over the bookings they originate. As a company not directly in the hospitality industry they don’t have the same culture of hospitality. Their contact form requires a java applet that is buggy. Their phone hold times can be long. Go elsewhere, like Expedia.

Later…just met someone from the development team. Hmmmmm…at least I was able to give them direct feedback :)

I’ve got two more weeks of working in Delray Beach, Florida, which is halfway between Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Any IAs down here? Wanna hang? Mail me: victor (at) victorlombardi dot com.

A long-time friend of mine is a crack UNIX System Administrator in search of a job in the New Jersey, USA area. Resume (MS Word).

Pieter Desmet is doing some great work in designing for and measuring emotions. I particularly like PrEmo, a visual scale of facial expressions for a user to specify an emotion they’re feeling.

James Kalbach, danke f�r den Hypertext-Link.

Keywords: marketing, brand, cartoon, face

Java.com is a sprightly little entry by Sun targeted at consumers. In the least we should all be thankful for a coherent way to download the software, which comes in a dizzying array of incomprehensible variations on Sun’s site.

And since the site emerged from my colleagues I feel OK poking fun at it’s obvious and stereotypical IA-then-design process roots. I can see the boxes sitting there in Visio…Download! Learn! Explore! :)

Gothamist is a pretty good read for those, like me, that find Gawker a little too Daily News. Thanks Tanya.

The new Mirra Chair from Herman Miller is said to be a better fit for more body sizes, easier to adjust, more colorful, more green, and less expensive (<$800) than the Aeron. Due in stores near the end of June.

Bill Seitz has launched wikilogs, ‘a hosting service which lets you maintain a personal wikilog, or wiki-based weblog‘ and includes his trademark wit, ‘ I’ve done some things to make wikilogs.com a bit more reader-friendly than the average wiki, and I’ll be doing more, but you’ll probably never get that Jason Kotte feeling here. So, if you’re one of those people who asked “why the heck is Julia marrying Lyle?”, you’re probably more of a weblog person.’ While I can barely create a three color palatte, I’d still like to see a user-definable wiki CSS file option. Witness the design variation possibilities at Zen Garden.