James is experimenting with Omnigraffle site maps.
Author: Victor
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Booty from the dom-com bust
Just picked up the formerly-taken victorlombardi.com. And no, I didn’t use NetSol to register it.
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Interview with John Weir
On designing iht.com: ‘I feel with sites like the IHT that radical change is often not good, purely for the sake of design. It is expensive, time consuming, requires change on the user’s part, disrupts the publishing work flow and opens up all the problems which come with software development.‘
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Interview with Adam Greenfield
On Razorfish Tokyo: ‘I can tell you that the energy in the office is like night and day compared to my old gig. It’s nice to have actual projects moving forward for actual clients–high-profile ones, at that–and a management structure that understands and values information architecture.‘
On the best IA tool: ‘The tool that most reliably produces sound architecture, as far as I’m concerned, is a functioning ear. IA is something that should be done by talking to people (primarily users, clients, and developers), asking the right questions, and listening carefully to the answers.‘
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Oversaturation
I find it hard to believe my friends who worked serving ice cream as a teenager could have gotten tired of eating the stuff. But lately I find it difficult to simply relax and enjoy the Internet. I just reflexively unsubscribed from an email newsletter because they had opted me in without my permission. I didn’t bother considering if I liked the content, which I might have. Victor, relax, wait until after closing, until everyone leaves, forget that you’ve been scooping the stuff for hours, make your perfect sundae and close your eyes and let it melt in your mouth.
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Browse and Search To Become Old-Fashioned Distinctions?
Gene Smith’s comments on browse vs. search makes me think the difference between search and browse is melting away, it’s a matter of using the right metadata to describe the content so even the search is basically an automated browse…bouncing from topic to topic to extract the right information.
As a scenario, it’ll be like when they do research by talking to the computer on Star Trek, circa Next Generation.
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The Kitchen Table
The phrase comes from Owen, who once compared the conversation among blogs to chatting around the kitchen table.