April 2002
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Interview with John Weir
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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.‘ @ Ordinary Life
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Interview with Adam Greenfield
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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…
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Oversaturation
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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…
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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…
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Get Your Voltron On
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Map Navigation I’d Like to See
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Redesigning Yahoo Maps a bit.
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Flavors of the One Love
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Music
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Organization Schemes
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Design
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Live like you’ll die tomorrow. Design like you’ll live forever.
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Process
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Information Architecture
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The Kitchen Table
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The phrase comes from Owen, who once compared the conversation among blogs to chatting around the kitchen table.
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I’ll Miss You
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Gone for a short while, traveling to work with my peeps in California. Here’s some destinations more worthy of your time: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Cheerleaders and Search Engines
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Looking at my referers I see people often find their way here by searching Google for ‘noise‘ where I’m currently result #9. While this is like warm massage oil on my ego, it confirms what I used to rant about (see March 12) that popular doesn’t necessarily equal better (or more relevant). Does a person…