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fontastic
Today's surfing reveals this: Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts - Table of Contentswhat a great collection of knowledge and information on fonts, from converting formats to greeking to the history of type...
4/23/2000 10:43:53 AM
belly of the (information) architect
Found a new reference jjg.net: information architecture resources.
What a great collection of resources! I'm gonna be a long time combing
through these...
Of particular help is the collection of links to
Information Architects trying to define the field. good luck! I have often
thought that pure information architecture is categorization and
labeling...everything else we do is interaction design, or interface design or
usability. In a way I think the Information Architect is like the webmaster of
old, doing what needs to be done, whether it was in the job description or not.
4/19/2000 8:39:44 PM
Honkworm
I first discovered the strange stylings of Honkworm at Egreetings.com, where they produced a set of christmas cards featuring beerswilling cigar chomping fish and a drunken frog in a santa hat. I ventured to the site, to watch all the fishbar shows, including the surreal french fish who expose the "dream life of fish" as well and bonk each other on the head with baguettes.
Also available are
- "The Siliconites", three trendy "friends" who site around a bar table pondering an existence that offers nothing more scary than getting rich and a woman who refuses to be your girlfriend.
- "Fatman", the adventures of a overweight superhero
- and "Bone", featuring the memorable quote, "Dammit Jim, I'm dead"
A find!
4/19/2000 8:02:00 AM
is it april 15 already?
I tried to file online today, and got so
annoyed, I ended up writing an essay about it in my blog.. but then it became
too long for blogger's character count, so I ended up submitting it here
evolt.org - Filing
online: the good, the bad and the unusable
4/15/2000 10:56:39 AM
Navigation... His and Hers
Well, everybody is doing it, so I may as well too.. time to get on the weblog bandwagon and put my thoughts down on the web for all and sundry's approval/dismay. www.blogger.com is a truly amazing site... I can't resist.
Eleganthack is supposed to be devoted to Information architecture (as
opposed to devoted to my resume, as it is right now)
So, to start the
dialog...
A while back there was an article on a study that showed men and women
navigate cities differently. Men tended to use maps to form a cognitive model of
a space, then expresses directions in this way "go south 1 mile,
then turn
west for 2 miles..." Women however used landmarks for wayfinding "turn left at
the red house, then right at the Denny's.."
I never saw the original study, and I'd be curious to read it..
That said, I wonder how this can apply to wayfinding in information
spaces. How, as web designers, can we create landmarks to assist navigation? How
can we make our structures transparent so they can be used to navigate? Should
be design differently based on our understanding of our audience's preferred
navigation method?
A friend and I were discussing this over lunch, and we thought that
breadcrumbs actually help both styles of wayfinding...
Entertainment>Humor>Bitterness>Things_That_Suck_
(yahoo,
natch)
this both conveys a hierarchy and provides language that is vivid enough
to act as a landmark.
Thoughts? Are there any studies/papers on this topic? mail me at crw at eleganthack.com
4/13/2000 9:42:50 PM
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