“Maintaining global consistency requires centralizing these Web efforts (usually within corporate headquarters), yet this must accommodate distinct approaches to working which vary from region to region.” [Adaptive Path] via Tomalak.
Tom Smith has a great introductory article on Why You Need Your Own Taxonomy. Useful for explaining taxonomies and facets to management or clients. [ia/ – news for information architects]
Here’s a fairly standard user-centered design process – not particularly different than most: Uncovery, Wireframing, Storyboarding, Prototyping, Development and Optimization.
It’s a familiar story to anyone experienced with iterative, user-centered processes. Its name: the Minerva Architectural Process™ for Persuasion Architecture ™, with the obligatory consulting firm trademarks. The difference: there’s a patent pending on it. “M.A.P & Persuasion Architecture are Patent Pending proprietary business processes belonging to Future Now, Inc. Contact us about licensing for your organization.”
More idiocy in the US Patent Office?
World of Ends: “That’s also why the Internet feels to so many of us like a natural resource. We have flocked to it as if it were a part of human nature just waiting to happen—just as speaking and writing now feel like a part of what it means to be human.”
The last sentence describes exactly how I felt the first time I saw the web. This is an important document. Bravo, Mssrs. Searl & Weinberger!
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