In this mornings email, a lovely link to this MT trick: Works in Progress - Blogdata.

But I will say that the icons are a bit dismaying. They are not intuitable, and one is a misuse of a known icon for "new document." Unlabeled non-standard teensy icons seem like potential trouble to me. But to each, his/her own!

All the fuss over findability resulting from Peter's article and the many insightful comments led me to think about this new concept until I saw this diagram in a dream.

Structural Design Components

Unfortunately my skills fall mostly in two of the three circles, so this draft is pretty rough looking. This one is a bit fancier. I'll be browsing Information Graphics for inspiration later...

The key concepts should be apparent, though. An IA strives toward the goal of findability, an interaction designer toward the goal of usability and the information designer toward understandability.

Obviously there are overlapping points. I had originally thought to put something in them, but then realized many items could go there. Between IA and InD, browse structures, between IfD and IA you get navigation design, between InD and IfD you get interface (GUI) design and so on. Most websites (and most software) fall neatly in the middle.

This is definitely a draft, so I'd love to get feedback from folks. Cheers!

i'm attempting to work in my hammock on my laptop. it always sounded like a good idea-- but it's impressively awkward, plus I'm jetlagged and the sun is so nice and warm... and my eyes so heavy....

yes, I'm back in mild CA. a soft breeze is playing the neighbors windchimes, I've rolled up my google t-shirt so the sun hits my tummy and the preschool kids next door just finished a lovely cleaning up song and have gone inside. it's not such a bad life here.

the funny angle in the hammock has me trying to type with my thumbs. well, why not?