Kathleen Hudson's Weblog

There were two web sites that we were required to review this week. The first I looked at was the TextMap web site located at http://www.textmap.com/. I was not at all impressed with this site. Firstly, the labeling was quite poor. There was no clarification of the labeling or from where the data was obtained. [...]

This week, I read chapters 14-16 from the Morville and Rosenfeld text and the reading was excellent in terms of the topics being explained in a concise and brief manner without a lot of extraneous details. Chapter 14 is an important topic as it deals with Ethics and the issues and responsibilities that information architects [...]

One of the sites we were required to visit was a site called Media 7 located at http://www.net.vg/media7/index.html. This site was pretty cool to look at and was quite simple to navigate. I noticed the use of Flicker to promote the designs and thought that was an excellent way to present the work so many [...]

This week, the assignment was to read chapters 12 and 13 from the Morville and Rosenfeld text. In chapter 12, the authors focus the process of design and documentation. One of the first things that are discussed is the importance using diagrams and visual aids when presenting IA designs to clients. This can be a [...]

This week, we were required to visit several web sites, one of which was Boxes and Arrows located at http://www.boxesandarrows.com. Boxes and Arrows is a peer-written online journal that is dedicated to the practice, advancement and discussion of all types of design such as graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. [...]

For week 5 we were required to read chapters 10 and 11 from the Morville and Rosenfeld text. Chapter 10 detailed Research and how it applies to IA. According to the textbook (2007), “The research phase begins with a review of existing background materials and meeting with the strategy team, aimed at gaining a high-level [...]

This week we were asked to review three websites one of which was CAIDA (The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) located at http://www.caida.org/home/. This site is a global Internet research firm and it was very impressive to browse through. I enjoyed reading their publications such as “Sustaining the Internet with Hyperbolic Mapping” and “Dialing [...]

For week 4, we were required to read chapters seven, eight and nine of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by authors Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld. Chapter seven deals with navigation systems which are designed to help users find what they are looking for and avoid getting lost in a myriad of websites. [...]

For this week, I read the fifth and sixth chapters of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by authors Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld. Chapter five deals with organization systems and related topics and issues such as why organizing information is often troublesome, organization schemes, database structures, and types of classification. In discussing organization, [...]

For week three, we were required to view several websites one of which was Louis Rosenfeld’s Media/Search Analytics website at http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics/. This site provides information on a research topic called “search analytics” which is rapidly attracting interest. I found this site to be really fascinating and a great help on how to improve your searching [...]