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Where the Wireframes Are: Special Deliverable #3 - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Includes a description of the "page description diagram" to use as a preliminary step before creating wireframes
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How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web | Miskatonic University Press
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Kwasnick (1999) identifies four classificatory structures: hierarchies, trees, paradigms, and facets.
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Hierarchies divide and redivide things into groups where each new group is a sub-species of its parent group; everything that is true of a group is also true of its sub-groups and so on down (Kwasnick 1999, 25). The Linnean taxonomy of living things is the classic example of this.
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Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication
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There is a fundamental difference in the activities of
browsing to find interesting content, as opposed to direct
searching to find relevant documents in a query. It is
similar to the difference between exploring a problem space
to formulate questions, as opposed to actually looking for
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Add Sticky NoteMerholz does not use the term “folksonomy.” He has
written on his personal web site that the term is inaccurate
due to its derivation from “taxonomy,” which he argues tend
towards hierarchy and control. (Merholz, 2004) (See also
Taylor, 2004, for discussions of problems and disputes with
the term “taxonomy.”) Merholz prefers the term
“ethnoclassification,” which is what he uses in his article,
and there is no mention of “folksonomy” to be
found. Ethnoclassification is also inaccurate, because as
discussed, what is happening is quite unlike classification
and far more like categorization.
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Facets In Your Future
Faceting in information architure
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f a top-notch information architect was on your design team, she categorized and classified your content, then arranged it in one or more taxonomies to support clean drill-down paths.
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The canonical example of a faceted directory is an ecommerce site like Wine.com, where visitors can browse by wine type, region, winery, or price
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Jesse James Garrett: ia/recon
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When most people think of the job of being an editor, I think they imagine someone hunched over a desk, red pen in hand, marking up an endless stream of text, cleaning up split infinitives and dangling participles and the like. But the editorial role and the editorial discipline are two very different things. While there are definitely some people who specialize in this sort of work, there's usually much more to being an editor.
In the broadest sense, an editor's job is to help writers make their writing more effective. This involves grammar and punctuation and word choice, sure, but a huge part of any editor's job has to do with creating effective structures. An editor might be responsible for structures at many scales, from the encyclopedia down to the textbook down to the article down to the paragraph down to the sentence.
Like the editor, the information architect is concerned most fundamentally with creating information structures. But the discipline of information architecture views this responsibility in a very different light. In the world of information architecture, all structural challenges are currently viewed as variants of the same problem -- the problem of information retrieval. -
If you asked an editor at a magazine or a newspaper if the structure of her product had been tested with readers before its publication, she would laugh at you. To her, developing effective structures is a matter of exercising her professional judgment -- judgment honed through years of trial and error and hard-won experience with her craft.
To her, the proof of her effectiveness in her discipline is her ability to exercise that judgment. To her, that judgment is the very reason for the existence of her role. To her, the idea of abandoning that professional judgment and recasting her role as a conduit through which research findings become structures would be simply absurd.
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Content strategy: The new face of documentation | Intentional Design Inc.
Slide presentation by Rahel Bailie from STC Summit 2009 in Atlanta. Excellent overview of content strategy's role in communications, very well worth the time.
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Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
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Content strategists in the digital age need to become data philosophers and explore the metaphysics of content, starting with the question “What is content?”
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