Working in a busy office is one of the best parts of being a designer or information architect – you can bounce off ideas, discuss projects with others and get their input, and you can generally have a good laugh. That is until the time comes where a new project is being started or requirements [...]
My day to day work consists of a lot of time spending on the internet, looking at web presences of current clients, prospective clients and their (and our) competition. My tool of the trade being FireFox 3 (especially considering that IE seems to have a little problem). I am using a number of addons which [...]
Continue reading about Firefox extensions for usability, accessibility and SEO experts
It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about Information Architecture, be it IA and user testing or designing for the mobile web in mind, and I want to talk about a topic today which relates somewhat to a somewhat new-ish step in Information Architecture, namely the integration of user retention and [...]
Continue reading about Information Architecture for Game Publisher websites (part 1)
Not so long ago I was asked by a client, if it was possible to change a couple of sections within their site as they just updated their product structure: the client was expanding their products to list two more categories. To make them stand out, their marketing team was thinking of using different colours [...]
Continue reading about On link usability – the art of keeping call to actions consistent
Alexander Rehm discusses design and development for mobile web devices, from pre-requisites to information architecture, design, development and usability testing
In a series of case-studies, Alexander Rehm discusses Information Architecture and usability testing from the intitial meeting with a client to design and the final stages of development
Continue reading about On Information Architecture and user-testing – Part 1