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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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Nice collection of stencils for OmniGraffle (essentially, Visio for Mac OS X) - handy for search, taxonomy, IA mockups.

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Brought to my attention by Ed Gandorf at MapInfo. Interesting collection and peek into a huge array of visualization methods. Many ways to show data, strategize, paint timelines, etc.. Reminds me - if you haven't been to one of Tufte's one-day courses - g

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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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blog of the ajax evangelist at yahoo - interesting stuff here

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but on the edge of what? you make the call.

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nice selection of books around IA, ID, usability, etc. Keep an eye on those map books, I haven't seen those (yet)

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concept mapping software, in java, multiplatform - could used for ontology examples, IA diagrams (stretch)

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someone to track, mentioned on iaslash.org

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