Agile + UX: (un)Synchronizing UX and development
User experience can help agile teams create better experiences, but agile isn't designed to manage user experience.
Information Architecture posts
A list of everything posted to Information Architecture. Love this topic? Subscribe to a feed with only Information Architecture posts.
It's just "User Experience"
Richard Dalton has started an online petition for replacing IA and IxD with "user experience design". Go sign it.
IA Summit 2009 presentation slides
The Non-linear Creations blog has collected a list of IA Summit presentations that have posted their slides.
Presentation - Faceted seach best practices - Wed, Feb 4
I’ll be presenting with two others Wednesday, February 4, as part of the Taxonomy Community of Practice series of teleconferences.
Target's ClearRX prescription bottle redesign wasn't all that
Revisiting Target's CleaRX and the tried and true prescription pill bottle: The design that gets built is the only design that matters.
Two questions about Information Architecture
If you have two seconds, I'd like to hear what questions about information architecture do you deal with on a frequent basis.
A sample 'Only' statement for the I.A. Institute
A look at how to put an Only statement together, as well as how it works using the I.A. Institute as an example.
The 'Only' statement: focus on your project's key goals
An Only statement keeps your team focused on a project's main goal and audience as well as what makes your project special.
A common language for interaction design
A common language for interaction design would improve the clarity and speed at which we communicate design.
Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user experience
Six ways to be more agile and better integrate user experience and information architecture into agile development teams.
Agile + UX = idealized vs. current state
Agile's focus on small iteration needs a team that can build the now, remember the future, and recognize the gap between the two.
We tried to warn you: how organizations are architected to fail
Peter Jones explores how, as designers, we have a responsibility to detect and assess the potential for large-scale failure.
Designing with patterns: Lessons from Yahoo! and Comcast
Come hear Christian Crumlish and I share what we’ve learned, what works, and what we will never ever do again at Comcast and Yahoo!
Lazy Site Map Generator
Jason Pearce has put together a Lazy Site Map Generator that takes a site architecture in Excel, converts it into a Visio-friendly format, and then creates your sitemap in Visio. I haven’t tried it, but it looks very useful.
The best books on innovation
Whether you're honing your design thinking or hoping to boost innovation, Victor's survey collects a list of books you need.
How to not boil lobsters: strategy keeps projects on track
If your team knows what your strategy is, then they know where you're going, and your less likely to end up somewhere else.
Personal information spaces, diagram by Dan Brown
Dan Brown provides a fantastic diagram that fuses Vanderwal's personal infocloud with a holistic view of interactions and mental models.
Don't see what you're looking for? View posts from all categories.