Informatiearchitectuur (categorie)

IA Summit 2007: Findability, RIA and documentation

This year’s IA Summit (22-26 March, Las Vegas) is all about ‘rich’: rich information, rich interaction and rich relationships. Even though my session proposal (on the Knowledge Browser concept) was not accepted, I’m looking forward to gain new inspiration from the conference sessions and meeting fellow IA’s.

My focus will be on three topics: findability (search), RIA and documenting (again: RIA). During the summit I intend to blog on the most interesting things per day.

Are you going to the IA Summit? See you next month!

Wij zijn het Web

In een inspirerende videoclip laat Michael Wesch, assistent-professor Culturele Antropologie, zien welke (r)evolutie het web (en dan met name Web 2.0) teweegbrengt in onze cultuur.
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My first test results with CrazyEgg

I have tested CrazyEgg (see my previous post) over the period of one week, monitoring click behavior on my blog homepage. Today I have looked at the results.
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Monitoring click behavior

Today I found Crazy Egg. According to the creators, Crazy Egg “is designed to help you continually test and improve your site”. You can:

• Test different versions of a page to see which works better
• Discover which ad placement gives the best results
• Find out which design encourages visitors to click deeper
• Learn which content leads to improved sales
  (source: crazyegg.com)

Reason enough to sign up for a free account and check it out. So as of today, I will be monitoring your every move on this page .

Social Design

The last two workshops I have attended on the UI11 Conference were both by Joshua Porter. The first one covers ‘social web applications’, the second “Is tagging right for your site?”.
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Why Less Is More

Today, on the last day of the UI11 Conference, we have seen a terrific keynote by Barry Schwartz, Professor of Social Theory and Social Action and author of the book ‘The Paradox of Choice – Why Less Is More’. It is by far the most usable keynote in my experience. Here is a selection of my notes.

We have always assumed that more freedom means more welfare. And we consider the ability make our own choices a key factor of freedom. So, more choice means more welfare. Or at least, this is how we think the world works. The business world has been acting upon this for many years and the public sector has been into this as well. Just look at the choices in the supermarket (cookies, desserts, toothpaste etc.).

Choice is good. But the problem is that we think that is only good. There is more choice than we need. There are three effects of having too much choice:
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