Information Architecture
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Social filtering for online forums
Yayhooray relaunched in June 2004 with a new version that uses social filtering to raise signal-to-noise. As far as I know, this is the first forum to use the buddy list as content filter. A short history of online-forum filtering approaches, and notes on what the new Yayhooray does.
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Information architecture books
This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design, building out a personal canon from books I was buying, borrowing from libraries, or lending to students. The lists are grouped by topic. This one is on information architecture: structuring and navigating information systems, the taxonomies and classifications behind them, and the wider theories of how information gets organised and shared. Rosenfeld & Morville’s book is the canonical introduction and still the best place to start. Bowker & Star’s Sorting Things Out is the essential theoretical counterpoint, a sociology of classification that any working IA practitioner should know. Brown & Duguid and Svenonius broaden it further into the social and philosophical foundations of information. The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy. Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville. Now in its second edition, undoubtedly the best introduction to IA. amazon.co.uk / amazon.com Richard Saul Wurman. amazon.co.uk / amazon.com Eric L. Reiss. amazon.co.uk / amazon.com Christina Wodtke. amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
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Mobile interaction design case study
A 2001 case study of consultancy work for Pollen Mobile, written up as it happened. Jack Schulze, Adi Nachman and I designed the interaction architecture for Mamjam, a location-based social entertainment service built on SMS, letting people in the same venue chat with each other by text.