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Always interested in expanding the Information Architecture toolkit - this is on the list to test in early 2011.

"iMockups for iPad is a mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects.

The ease and mobility of an iPad app with the power of a desktop app at your fingertips."

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Interestng walkthru on various design patterns for the UI of portals.

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Collection of a variety of IA tools from the IA Institute. Some social feedback on this collection would be might useful - and find it hard to believe that most of these artifacts haven't evolved since being posted between 1-7 years ago.

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Nice collection of wireframing and prototyping tools/techniques of all kinds.

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Flash-less, web-based application for wireframes. More options than ever in this space. Getting Enterprise designers/developers to actually use them? Priceless. (But be prepared to defend against "let's just build the full working site/app - that's the 'real test'" discussion...)

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Just stumbled onto this - a series of "trading cards" relating to usability, IA, etc..

One in particular caught my eye, it describes "Baskcasting" where teams work from an ideal future state, and work backwards to the current state. Smells a lot like TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), and "Ideality." The more I think about future/backward approaches, the more sense it makes to me.

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"4+1 is a view model designed by Philippe Kruchten for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. The views are used to describe the system in the viewpoint of different stakeholders, such as

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Stumbled onto this solution today - so much of collaboration is about providing a generic "knowledge worker" environment, but there can easily be a need for a more specialized environement. ProtoShare is a website wireframing and prototyping tool, wrapped

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Huge collection of video for the presentations given at the Interaction 08 conference this year. Was looking for slide decks for some reference points, but full video is a nice surprise.

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Excellent article by Jeff Patton on an agile development practice/pattern known as the user story. Looks at a user experience end to end (and with sub-tasks) to make sure the ENTIRE experience is considered. I believe Jeff taught the Agile Development mee

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Always heartening to see Taxonomy practitioners who not only see that taxonomy is not just about navigation, but explains it well. There's more to Findability than search OR navigation folks.

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Christina Wodtke is at work on this venture - looks interesting, come back to this and take a deeper look.

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Looks like a good collection of the presentations from the IASummit. Take a look!

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Another pattern library for web design, found this via Yahoo's new Design Pattern Library (and UI Pattern Library)

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free for the taking, but mind the license - BSD-style

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Yahoo is opening the kimono to open up their UI patern library, this blog covers that and more

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