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Blogging with humanity

IA 4 April 2011 Comments Off

Humane Information Architecture is based on a fair whack of social conscience – that is, it is based on the idea that design professionals should always strive to do good with their work. For a start this means doing no harm – not allowing people to come to harm as a result of the designer’s [...]

Categorisation

IA 25 March 2011 Comments Off

There has been a bit of discussion about categories and tags: when to use categories as opposed to tags, and how to make each of them useful. Categorisation: a basic human need People are categorisation engines – we categorise experiences so that we can learn from them and deal with them. Without going into the [...]