It’s been awhile since my last post, but constantly doing a catch-up on my life seems pretty dull, so instead I’ve queued up a few different topics for blog posts. I’m starting with my new favorite social media site, Ravelry, which is an online community for knitters and crocheters. What I love most about Ravelry […]
Raveling
Measuring the Architecture of Site Search
I like to think about the kinds of analysis of web sites that I would do if there were no limitations on data availability and quality. It’s a fun kind of pipe dream for a steamy summer evening. Earlier this evening, I had a conversation with a friend that turned to search log […]
Information Architecture with a Little Help from Web Analytics
I recently completed a long-term project for the Purple Rose Theatre Company’s web site. The task was to redesign their home page with a fresh CSS layout and more varied content while keeping ongoing maintenance overhead low.
The various bits of content for the new home page are easily updated by the theatre’s own staff with […]
Shameless Plug: Information Architecture
The ASIST Bulletin’s June/July 2007 issue focuses on information architecture, and my well-traveled paper on web analytics to validate IA heuristics is making another appearance. Each round of editing for the various venues in which it has run have helped to improve the content, so it has become a little smoother over time. […]
Grand Challenges in IA Research
Subtitle: an enthusiastic audience member’s biased account of the IA Summit 2007 panel with Karl Fast (Kent State U), Grant Campbell (U of Western Ontario), & Don Turnbull (U Texas - Austin).
Karl gave a great introduction to the origins of the “Grand Challenges” construct for researchers. This is a way of identifying the major […]