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2008 July 20 • ia, processWhat are Wireframes
article: Appropriately titled The what, when and why of wireframes.
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How visitors View Websites
article: When planning and improving a website, it is important to know how people view websites. Knowing this will help you to design your site in such a way, that people will be able to find and do what they want on your website.
2007 April 28 • design, ia, usabilityBreadcrumb Navigation
article: Breadcrumbs won't help a site answer users' questions or fix a hopelessly confused information architecture. All that breadcrumbs do is make it easier for users to move around the site, assuming its content and overall structure make sense.
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Myth of the 3-click Rule
myth: How many times have you heard it takes too many clicks to get to a page? Or that a user will give up after 3 clicks?
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Web Navigation Is About Moving Forward
article: The primary purpose of web navigation is to help people to move forward. It is not to tell them where they have been, or where they could have gone.
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Breadcrumb Navigation Study
research: Breadcrumbs are used if a breadcrumb label happens to match what the users is looking for. This suggests that breadcrumbs were not used for orientation or back-tracking, but rather a means of moving forward.
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Personas
links: Articles, tutorials, examples and templates.
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A-Z indexes
articlet: "Can A-Z indexes hold their own against other popular navigational elements like search and sitemaps? Helen Lippell guides us through how the BBC online, a site with over two million pages, handled their own A-Z index."
2005 November 30 • ia, processTaxonomies
article: A great introductory article on Taxonomies... 'structures that provide a way of classifying...
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Tools for Information Architects
resource: The Information Architecture Institute has a nice section full of tools for Information Architects and Interaction Designers.
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What is information architecture?
article: Provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
2005 April 17 • design, iaNavigation Blindness
article: How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools.
2005 March 15 • ia, processCharacter Traits
article: Useful when constructing archetypes or personas.
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Info Design for Flash Applications
article: Modeling User Workflows for Rich Internet Applications
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Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation
article: Thoughts about sitemaps, navigation, IA deliverables and the root problems with organization and content on the Web.
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Navigation Blindness
article: How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools.
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User Stories for Requirements
article: User stories appear to have much in common with use cases and traditional requirements statements. However, there are many subtle differences among them and many advantages to user stories, especially for agile development projects.
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Benefits of Personas
article: The Three Important Benefits of Personas. (1) Helps to separate you from the work. (2) Helps provide a shared vision. (3) Helps solidify the shared vision.
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Visio stencils for information architects
stencils: A free set of Visio stencils designed to aid the work of Information Architects. Also includes a number of good links to other online tools and references.
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The Future of IA
presentation: Download an excellent presentation on the Future of IA, PDF and PPT formats.