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IA Information Architecture
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Edward R. Tufte - the "father" of IA

"...The first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers... The second book, Envisioning Information is about pictures of nouns... The third book, Visual Explanations is about pictures of verbs; how to show motion, dynamics, mechanism, explanation, cause and effect..."

-- from Edward R. Tufte Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview, 1994-1997 http://www.ercb.com/feature/feature.0008.2.html

Related Sites:
About Tufte http://www.tekdok.com/usablewebsites/tufte.htm
Getting Tufte http://mappa.mundi.net/trip-m/tufte/index.html
Notes from a Tufte Course http://www.mousetrap.net/~mouse/uta/PhD/tufte.html
Salon Interview, "The Data Artist" http://www.salon.com/march97/tufte970310.html
Graphics and Web Design Based on Tufte's Principles http://www.washington.edu/computing/training/560/zz-tufte.html
Tufte's Tips for Presenting to Groups http://home.teleport.com/~phillip/tufte.html

Richard Saul Wurman - author of "Information Anxiety" 1 & 2

Technology, Entertainment, Design, interview http://frontwheeldrive.com/richard_saul_wurman.html

Peter Morville - Argus Associates

Semantic Studios Column on IA: The Speed of Information Architecture http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/speed.html

ASIS 2000 Presentation: Defining Information Architecture: "Strange Connections" http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/morville/sld001.htm

Louis Rosenfeld - Argus Associates (see also required textbook list)

Author's web http://www.louisrosenfeld.com/

Rosenfield's "Community Structure for IA" Blog http://www.info-arch.org/infrastructure/

Rosenfeld's PPT presentation for U of Saskatchewan Library's Access '98 conference http://library.usask.ca/access98/ppoint/rosenfeld/html/sld001.htm

ASIS Bulletin, Information Architecture Practice: An Interview with Lou Rosenfeld, Argus Associates, Inc. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-00/rosenfeld.html

Peter Merholz - Adaptive Path http://www.adaptivepath.com/

Innovations in Classification http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html

From Construct to Structure: Information Architecture from Mental Models
Adaptive Paths' online presentations
http://www.adaptivepath.com/presentations/

Steve Krug, author, Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Authors website http://www.sensible.com/

Book chapter "How do we really use the web?"
http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html

Jakob Nielsen

Sample Chapter (pdf) on Site Design from Nielson's book, Designing Web Usability. New Riders Press. http://www.newriders.com/books/title.cfm?isbn=156205810X

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox column on Web Usability http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

[Washington Post] .COM – LIVE interview with Nielsen http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/talk/transcripts/walker/walker061799.htm

Christina Wodtke, "the Elegant Hack"

The Face Information Architecture: An interview with
http://www.webword.com/interviews/wodtke.html

Bonnie Nardi - Information ecologist

ACIA Profile http://argus-acia.com/people/current_profile.html

Nardi's Web http://nardi.best.vwh.net/default.html

Nardi and O'Day's (1999) Components of Information Ecologies:

people
practices
technologies
values

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