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Usability Consultants?

naugamonster — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:49:53 GMT

Can anyone suggest a good Usability Consultancy? My agency needs to do some testing - wants to hire an external company to lead.

Thanks!
Nauga

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Great tools for IA's from the IA Institute

naugamonster — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:46:16 GMT

In case this hasn't been posted before: http://iainstitute.org/tools/
-- lots of valuable tools.

-N

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Books on info architecture...

ASTRObotic — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:26:35 GMT

Anyone have any recommendations of a book with great visual examples for my work library?

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Lookin for Contract IA help

ianrhett — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:55:25 GMT

CivicActions is a virtual team of 23 contractors across the globe who provide technology consulting services to empower distributed networks
to protect the environment, advance peace, improve public health, promote social and economic justice and increase human potential. You
can read more about us on our website: http://www.civicactions.com.

We're always looking for talented contractors who are passionate about making a positive difference in the world through the practice of their craft. Drop us (me) a line - ian@civicactions.com

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Anymore MeetUps?

QuidProQuo — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:43:56 GMT

I saw that there was a meetup scheduled a couple months ago but now it's closed. Anyone planning any more of these?

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College Social Networking Project

lindsey — Thu, 18 May 2006 05:22:15 GMT

Hey all -

So --- I am working with a pretty talented team on a social networking project for college students. Yes I know I know - social networking is a bit in the past - But we want to offer more, think flash happy : professor reviews, travel information, a marketplace, funny videos, calendaring, etc. (much more of course).

What kinds of things would you want if you were in college? Don't you want video, voip and all that new technology - no longer trying to use an site that markets to everyone from 12 year olds to 60 year olds?

Just wanted to see if there were any thoughts on the organization of these sites...

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Info display of large data sets

miamiron — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:30:03 GMT

I just ordered Tuft's book, but can anyone suggest an online resource for tips, help, etc on representing large data sets?
For example, in a web application, displaying a large network topology where successive layers of detail can be revealed?

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great examples of information design

sugarlime — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:58 GMT

hi, i'm looking for examples of information design that is innovative or just done really well. work that is really brings to life to data representation in beautiful, elegent and simple ways, sites like tenbyten.org or tenbyten.org/info.html or www.wordcount.org/main.php

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Looking for a junior/mid-level information architect

vince — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:50:54 GMT

This is my first post, so I'm gonna try this out....

I work for a mid-large size digital marketing agency in the Los Angeles/Orange County area and would like to see if there is anyone out there looking for a junior/mid-level information architect role. For someone without a lot of experience, this would be a good opportunity to get some learnings working on large scale web projects for a variety of clients.

For any interested parties, please reply to this post with an e-mail address or other contact details and I will get back to you.

thanks!

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Join the San Francisco CMS Meetup Group!

smarmle — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:50:19 GMT

http://webcms.meetup.com/13/

We just had our inaugural meeting at Maxfield's (17th/Dolores). Mike bought everyone in attendance a turkey sandwich. You know you want to be part of our in-person, in-the-flesh tribe.

Especially recommended for Web and Structured Content Contributors, Architects, Publishers and Template Designers.

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Getting started

Jeff — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:39:50 GMT

Ok. So here's the deal - I just graduated and I have a job and everything but it's not as an IA. Every job posting I ever see is for an IA with 5-7+ years experience, blah blah blah.

My question is where did you start on your path to being an IA? Was it a conscious decision or did you fall into it? Did you start out as a Developer? A designer? Mail clerk?

I'm bored of programming but the more of it I do, the more of it I get. I've been typecast by employers and I want to break out of this rut.

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Into the Blogosphere

Chris — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:49:06 GMT

Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/

ed. Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota

This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. The collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others.

Into the Blogosphere is a first in many ways. Along with its being the first scholarly collection focused on the blog as rhetorical artifact, the editors also offer an innovative approach to intellectual property and to publishing. There are a number of peer reviewed journals in digital format. However, with an edited collection, the desired outcome is usually a hard-copy book, so the standard process has been to turn to a publisher with a proposal, then typically wait several years before the book actually comes out.

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Anyone got good sample wireframes of smallish e-commerce sites?

yma — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:13:26 GMT

I use Visio and can make my own templates,
but just thought I'd ask.

It is for a smallish upscale fashion site selling hats and other playa gear.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Yma

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Virtual Work Environment

Gilton — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:18:48 GMT

What is needed: Functional and Requirement Specification for an Information Architecture that supports the Collection of Requirements, The Solicitation and Qualification of Virtual Workteams, The Monitoring of the Work Effort, Payroll and Benefits for Work team members, Work flow communication between Team Members, Delivery and Signoff of Work Product. Ron has already mentioned this on a number of posts and I am just now recognizing his interests. I have,before him, made overtures toward a 'virtual corporation', but like him, I had to get a job first. Now that I have a job, minimal though it is and an Internet connection, I can now devote time toward this vision which Ron, myself, and many others have. This is the future, folks. We need collaborators, with high bandwidth who can help us develop this document. Any takers?

Gilton

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Looking for work...

miamiron — Tue, 25 May 2004 15:36:07 GMT

I'm looking for a job either in the Miami/Ft Lauderdale area or Boston.
I have a Masters in Information Science and have over seven years experience writing requirements, usability testing, IA, etc.

If anyone has any leads I'd sure appreciate hearing about them!

Thanks-
Ron

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Hellzapoppin' Pixels

Wed, 19 May 2004 16:42:36 GMT

i started a wallpaper tribe. take and leave the d-o-double dopest desktop images!

wallpaper.

i was just thinkin that if someone posted some real wallpaper patterns from the 50's they would get the gold medal in my book. or used them as an under layer in a pic... oh im off this is bad ass!

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who are we?

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:33:46 GMT

183 subscribers, not much activity. Thought I'd break the ice.

I'm a research scientist at an enterprise software company, specializing in information retrieval.

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tools

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT

hi, i'm an interactive designer, not an ia - but a question came up in one of my classes about software programs for flowcharting/sitemapping. i'd like to ask which programs you find to be the best for sitemapping (pros/cons, etc). thanks a bunch!

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What are the base-level assumptions in IA?

GrantHogarth — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:38:33 GMT

OK... What do people see as the operating base-level assumptions that affect how Information Architecture (IA) is developed, and what assumptions affect how an Architecture is created, deployed, used, expanded/improved, and maintained?

(And as side notes (always!):

1) Are there any undeclared
assumptions I am making that
need to be?
(e.g. I've assumed that IA is
a good, and that people here
are interested in the topic
-- those (I think) can be taken
as givens.

But perhaps not. <g>)

2) Are there any issues related to
this that I have not declared
that should be?

<smile>
Let the discourse commence!

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Make $5000 a week...Guaranteed!

Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:06:33 GMT

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AIfIA - IA organization

Austin — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:46:33 GMT

Just a note for those who may not have heard about AIfIA.

It's a professional organization for IAs. There's more on their website: http://www.aifia.org

I'm a member, and happen to enjoy it, but many of the services are available to non-members. Check out the job listing and the IA tools.

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Information Architecture

Gilton — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:30:35 GMT

This is a good site with information visualization tools:
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
This has a good design I got from the RIA tribe:
http://www.theyrule.net/theyrule.html

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a new poster art tribe

dij — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:23:40 GMT

http://posterart.tribe.net

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Speaking of IA

cschwan — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:41:51 GMT

I can see this IA of here tribe.net collapsing very fast. What do you think?

Time to start filing bug reports.

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Classic IA Tools Comic

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:35:03 GMT

Dan Willis created a great introduction to Information Architecture with his Classic IA Tools comic book.

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/images/042103_willis/dswilliscom_classictools.pdf

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Glorified Librarian?

cschwan — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:13:09 GMT

LOL!

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Cross-pollination

moth23 — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:01:55 GMT

Anyone here might also be interested in the Experience Design tribe. Check it out...

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