Please join us at the newly remodeled Freight House Dunn Brothers for the March UX/IA meetup. Are you going to the IA Summit in Vegas? Do you have any other conferences or professional development on your schedule? Let’s catch up.
February will be a redux of January. Anyone interested in skating can meet at the Depot ice skating rink at noon. The UX meeting will be at 2pm at the Dunn Bros in the new Central Library on Nicollet. **Next month we’ll go back to our 2nd week of the month schedule** Mar 10 – [...]
Over at Boxes and Arrows, our own Samantha Bailey reviews Intuitect, iRise, and Axure for documenting interactive systems.
or, why MySpace is so popular. “Our analysis left us without any correlation between the number of times users clicked and their success in finding the content they sought.” – Joshua Porter Bonus: Long scrolling pages (like this one) are OK. “76% of the page-views with a scroll-bar, were scrolled to some extent.” – ClickTale [...]
Over at the Frog Design blog Ian Curry digs into the Visual Designer / Information Architect relationship – specifically how to tweak wireframes to make the relationship less contentious via “alternative documentation systems”. While as Ian suggests, discussing the designer/IA relationship is the yettie form of navel-gazing. Wireframes are their most useful when they tell [...]
Many thanks to Filip Borloo from iCogs and Christian Lund from Scrollerdex for setting up an off-schedule dinner and drinks Brussels IA meet up last night while I was visiting their fair city. Great conversation that, like our own IA Coffees, talked about the business and financial decisions that drive “Big IA” and things completely [...]
The design, hosting, development, and SEO shop I work for – NetDynasty – wants an information architect.
Thanks to everyone braving the rain for last night’s debut MNteractive IA Skills Sharing event. To my personal amazement, Larisa proved to me that all is not lost when trying to design a good customer experience inside the less-than-agile Rational Unified Process. Larisa will be sharing the same presentation at the upcoming EuroIA in Berlin. [...]
When I left Chicago a few years back, my employer there joked that I was moving because the Twin Cities was the place the Information Architecture. Like all good jokes, it’s funny cause it’s true. There’s a substantial community Information Architects here, lots of independents, even a couple IA ‘pure plays’ (StraightLineTheory, EatonGolden, and dare [...]
If you want to show your stuff and get a bit of moola in return, the Information Architecture Institute is interested. Considering the geekery we all participate in for free, this is a great opportunity to explore an idea and share it with the community. Details below: The Information Architecture Institute (IAI) is pleased to announce the [...]