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Books : Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
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 Rating:  - Lots of evangelism, theory and very little practiceAs a, self-taught, one-man-band website owner/designer/coder/developer I was surprised to realise, upon reading the book, that I was not the 'target audience' for it. I think its more for the middle-men and consultants of big organisations who want to plan a project to the nth degree before a big budget is blown on it. Because of my hands-on experience, I found that this book merely gave me formal names for many of the processes and aspects of Information Architecture (IA) that I had ... Read More Rating:  - Theory, practice, and a little evangelism tooWhen I first told people I was reviewing this book, there was often a blank look. When I explained what information architecture was, then there was invariably a look of pity that passed across their faces. It appears that many people haven't a clue what information architecture actually is, and when they find out, wish they still didn't. Well, this book has shown me the light. And I'm here to share it with you. Hallelujah, and so forth. Information is all around us, ... Read More Rating: - Thought provoking bookThe book has many good areas to stimulate thought on the some of the things you should be considering when building applications. Some areas such as librarian practices will have little use in every day work. Not really a reference book for building usable applications, more of a good night time read. But for those of you who believe that usability is a big issue that many people overlook, you'll find a friend in this book. Rating:  - Rather Old, Rather TiredThis was possibly the first book to use the words "information architecture" in its title that most people ever encountered. It's since become one of the defining IA texts. However, it has not aged very well at all. The discipline of IA has evoloved rapidly over the intervening years, and the view this book has of the field is really now only one facet of it - essentially that of libriarianship and information organisation rather than the wider activities of interaction design and "user experience" ... Read More Rating: - Excellent overview - second edition required!For someone fairly new to the area, I can't recommend this book enough. The book is well researched and written in an accessible style - sometimes not an easy thing to do in an area like this. A couple of minor points: - The book actually gives some useful pointers for IA for Intranets as well as 'the web' - this should be made more clear - I don't feel that the book gives adequate information on site maps - Some of the illustrations look old - this has the result of the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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