Jeff Lash: “While much of one?s success or failure depends on the skills specific to information architecture?like diagramming, documenting, organizing?an even greater indicator is soft skills: dealing with conflict, negotiating, and communicating.”
Jeffrey Veen: “Do Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes.”
The world-reknowned architect Frank O. Gehry, best known for the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, is designing a new museum for Panama. The Bridge of Life, as the project is known, will be the first museum devoted exclusively to the study of biodiversity. I’ve been working with the Amador Foundation—the project’s promoters—to produce the museum’s website, which we launched yesterday.
AIfIA has published a collection of tools that will probably be very useful to IAs and other web professionals. They include templates for writing creative briefs, project overviews, process maps, and other common activities.
Boxes and Arrows: “In the user experience community, we?re valiantly fighting against the infection of chooser-centered design, and the antidote we prescribe is user involvement. It?s the common rallying cry of the UX community: “Put the user in the process! Embrace user-centered design!” Unfortunately, it?s the wrong answer.”
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