Adrian Chong's blog

Discourse around Emergent Information Architecture

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:04:39 -0700

A couple of great blog posts by Peter Merholz â Emergent IA and Gene Smith â How do people co-create information environments? touching on topics surrounding emergent IA. There is also some follow up discussion in the IAI mailing list.

Christopher Fahey writes an interesting series on the âSmoke & Mirrorsâ of user research.

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:38:48 -0700

As designers look towards user research for the objective truth, Christopher questions the motives behind the research. He follows with a series of articles, the first of which discuss user research as a pseudo science pointing to absolutes that do not exist. He continues the discussion stating that tools such as eye tracking provide results that are already apparent to good UI designers. His latest article explains that a value of user research is often to cut through the politics and convince stakeholders to make good design decisions. His upcoming article: âResearch as Bullshitâ

10 Ways

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:00:11 -0700

If you havenât already seen Getty Images' 10 Ways, itâs worth a look. Getty collaborated with 5 designers to create some very creative interactive experiences. They attempt to capture the compelling visual language of photography.

Iâm not too sold on them as educational tools but they are neat interactive pieces none the less.

Adrian Chong's blog

Discourse around Emergent Information Architecture

Christopher Fahey writes an interesting series on the âSmoke & Mirrorsâ of user research.

10 Ways

Christopher Fahey writes an interesting series on the âSmoke & Mirrorsâ of user research.