well, their title tag says it all, don't it.
from IS 249 | Information Architecture | Summer 2001
"Information Architect: 1) The individual who organizes the patterns inherent in data, making the complex clear, 2) A person who creates the structure or map of information which allows others to find their personal paths to knowledge, 3) The emerging 21st century professional occupation addressing the needs of the age focused upon clarity, human understanding, and the science of the organization of information."
--Richard Saul Wurman
IAwiki: WireFrames has recently been vigorously and lovingly edited by Victor Lombardi, and show a sensible approach to the (necessary?) evil of wireframes.
Keith is the brave soul who got this layout working. He also has a lovely blog (IMO-- I tend to like sparse and elegant)
One of the single biggest changes you'll see is correctly spelled entries. Thanks to jay, whose instructions then IM handholding got it up and running. Thanks also to matt haughey who tried to help me the first time. And a pox on the rotten instructions at spellchecker.net.
I came across the PUBLISHERS' PAGE OF SHAME which lists books that have fallen apart almost immediately upon release into circulation. If you've ever bought a book and had pages fall out half-way through the read, you know what I'm talking about.
For a product to be successful it has to have a good technical underpinning as well as an easy to use exterior. Blogger is easily the simplest blog-tool, and changing tools is painful. yet I've moved from one to the next, first leaving Blogger when it became too unstable to be trusted, then moving to MovableType when Greymatter development stood still. Usability is great, but if the tool doesn't do what you want it to...
But we as customers can make a difference also. Movable Type wasn't as easy as I wished it was (it's actually pretty simple to use, but there are quirks) so I contacted the creators and offered to help make it better. And they cared enough to take that offer seriously. I compare it to another friend of mine, a fairly well known usability guy (well, in the geeky usability circles) who has been desperately trying to get the open source movement to accept his offers of help for years....