I took a little break from giving presentations to people at the office about information architecture and the IA’s role, but this coming week I’m starting again. I’ve created a modified, new version of my presentation – this time trying a bit more visual, yet simple ways of showing what the basic process and its [...]
In the last couple of days there’s been a big debate on the IAI mailing list about the definition of ‘information architecture’ (again), and partly that prompted me to think of the definition of my own role (again), working as an “information architect” (that is, officially, my title) at an advertising agency. Information architecture (IA) [...]
Many clients still take wireframes either too literally and think that they’re meant to represent the final design, or refuse to understand wireframes at all and insist on seeing design comps instead. When that happens, I try either of these two things: Create wireframes in Visio or Graffle, but use a sketch-like stencil set (example [...]
Half inspired by Google’s Chrome comics, half by T. Scott Stromberg’s sketch notes from Adaptive Path’s UX Week, I attached a comic-like drawing to this article. The drawing includes some of the sentences I hear often at the office from the mouths of different members of the team, including my own. Previously, in my first [...]
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