Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term ia. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
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Smart consumers balance risk in their financial investment portfolios, and smart designers should consider design and product investments the same way.
Christina Wodtke on why she’s over wireframes:
I haven’t heard much lately about why wireframes are so awesome. I know they are incredibly useful as a thinking tool. I can’t work through an idea without getting out a pencil and scribbling out some wireframes on a pad of paper. I’m not sure they are good as a communicating tool.
The article itself has a reasonably articulated argument, but the discussion is probably more valuable.
Wireframes are just a tool, and all tools can be used inappropriately just as easily as they can be used well. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that in certain situations, wireframes aren’t particularly valuable, and Christina may exist in one of them. I think most folks, however, find themselves in scenarios where there remains a legitimate need for the wireframe, both as a thought aid and as a communication tool.
Seth Godin:
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. By the time there is a case study in your specific industry, it’s going to be way too late for you to catch up.
If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard a client ask who else in their space has used a specific design solution…
Jakum Linowski has a pretty snifty system for annotating sketches to consider states and various sorts of interactions.
It’s easy to see why it’s become common practice: your organization (business, blog, whatever) builds a site, and your initial focus is on text content, since that’s what you’re used to producing. At some point, you start to expand into other media types like audio, video, slides, etc. So now you’ve got this text-centric site and this existing or potential load of content in some other format, and the question appears: where does all this stuff go? One hint: it’s not the “Multimedia,” “Audio,” “Video,” or “Podcast” sections.
James Melzer has some good thoughts on language in the context of critiquing IA, and some word pairs that he uses to evaluate and critique work done by others.
An interesting note: he pairs “crowdsourced” as the antonym to “designed.”