Blogs
- Elegant Hack
- Gleanings, the blog, is sometimes interesting, and sometimes much too much detail: which is pretty much the strength and weakness of blogging. There are also some useful articles here.
- Peterme.com
- Much good stuff in this blog, if too much local detail, but then, it is a blog. And every time I pop in, I tend to revise my opinion upwards.
- Noise Between Stations
- Presentations and blog on IA and everything else.
- Lucdesk
- Always good to have an un-American blog on web design, usability and IA.
- Xplane
- The "Visual Thinking Blog". Good blog in a well architected site.
- JJG.net
- This was one of the most useful blog/resources, and the Visual Vocabulary for mapping out Information Architectures and User Interfaces is very useful. But this site has rather fallen by the way-side as its author has focused on his book and Adaptive Path consultancy.
Resources
- Boxes and Arrows
- The primer Information Architecture e-zine. Read it, subscribe to it.
- Evolt.org IA-Usability
- Another interesting mélange of articles to browse through on those skills-building Friday afternoons.
- Findability.org
- Every "guru" needs a catchy drum to beat, and for Peter Morville, Findability's the thing. And why not.
- IAwiki Community Discussion
- The Wiki (shared knowledge base) for Information Architecture. It has several starting points you might want to begin from.
- Information Design
- Cues you to the best of new articles around, across all the topics discussed here, not just Information Architecture.
- Usor User Orientated Methods
- A small but useful catalogue of user investigations methods.
- Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
- I have to admit I didn't care for this organisation when it first came out in 2002, and I'm still struggling to see how it significantly differs from any of the other major resources.
- Argus-ACIA IA Guide
- A little old now, and more of a hotchpotch than a guide, but lots of good hotch in that potch.
Practical Applications
- Desire Information Gateways Handbook
- Good guide to management, technical and information design issues about setting up a portal Information Gateway.
- Intranet Structuring
- Discussion of Intranet Information Architecture issues
- Why Do Intranets Fail
- Because ... lack of planning, ignoring the user, modeling it on the organisation, lack of ownership, lack of governance.
Issues
- Information Specialists at the Intersection of IA & Usability
- Well most of us live at the intersection of Information Architecture and Usability, and this lecture nicely explores this fuzzy place.
- The Speed of Information Architecture
- Discussion of which elements of Information Architecture change at different rates over time.
Mailing Lists
- SIGIA-l mailing list
- High volume Information Architect mailing list. Can get a bit dominated by folks with time on their hands, and parochial messages (anyone for drinks?) or navel-gazing about semantics, plus the occasional flame war — all the usual fun of mailing lists.
- SIGIA-l mailing list Archive
- If you have a job, searching through this is probably a better way of tackling the mailing list.
