Category Archives for User Experience Design

User Experience Design and Information Architecture – Centered and Bounded Sets

The centered set approach is like gathering cats rather than herding cattle. The center is the pail of milk that draws the cats. This morning I finally checked Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence off of my reading list. I consumed … Continue reading

04. August 2012 by dan
Categories: Teaching Information Architecture, Uncategorized, User Experience Design | 3 comments

The Umbrella of UX

There was an interesting question posted to the IxDA mailing list yesterday: Can we say that Usability, User centered design, Information Architecture and interaction design fall under the umbrella of User experience design? I offered a perspective on Rohit’s question. … Continue reading

17. February 2011 by dan
Categories: Teaching Information Architecture, User Experience Design | Tags: , | 2 comments

There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett

I was wrong. The discipline of information architecture and the role of the information architect will always be defined in conjunction with one another. As long as you have information architects, what they do will always be information architecture. Seems … Continue reading

19. March 2010 by dan
Categories: Information Architecture Design, User Experience Design | Tags: , , , , | 16 comments

Kai Turner on The Future Of Information Architecture

I’m still working my way through

26. January 2009 by dan
Categories: Book In Progress, Information Architecture Design, Regular Old Architecture, User Experience Design | Tags: , , , , | 1 comment

Beautiful Things "Work" Better, Except Maybe When We're Talking About UX Deliverables

Seems to me there”s some sort of meta-critique that can be made (or perhaps has already been made) regarding what Norman observes about attractive things being functionally superior to ugly things, and the conflicting idea in some UX circles that … Continue reading

13. January 2009 by dan
Categories: Book In Progress, Information Architecture Design, Steal From Here for NTISI, User Experience Design | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 comments

Bill Higgins, The Uncanny Valley and… Wallace Stevens?

Not sure how I missed this posting by Bill Higgins about the design of robots and what it could teach us about UX design for the web back in “07 but many thanks to my former student Ryan Cannon for … Continue reading

17. December 2008 by dan
Categories: User Experience Design | Tags: , , | 1 comment