Recent posts in my IA Summit Category
July 30, 2010
EuroIA 2010 update
This year's EuroIA conference in Paris is getting closer, and registrations have now opened. There are early bird discounts available until August 6th, and Eric Reiss tells us that uptake is 100% up on this time last year. Space is limited, so I urge you get registered soon.
June 1, 2010
I'll be 'The information architect with an identity crisis' at this year's EuroIA
I'm pleased to be able to say that I'll be presenting a talk entitled "The information architect with an identity crisis" at this year's EuroIA in Paris.
May 24, 2010
Google Diversity Grant places up for grabs at EuroIA
Google are offering two free places for female computer scientists at this year's EuroIA Summit in Paris. Here are details of how to apply.
May 12, 2010
EuroIA Summit - Amsterdam 2008 revisited
The call for papers for this year's EuroIA Summit in Paris ends at the weekend. If you need some inspiration for your submission, here is a run-through of some of my notes from the 2008 event in Amsterdam.
May 5, 2010
#DENDATAMEET, FOWD, JEEcamp and EuroIA - Upcoming conferences and talks
In the coming weeks and months I'll be talking at or attending #DENDATAMEET, Future of Web Design London, JEEcamp and the EuroIA summit in Paris. Find out more about the events and how to join me here.
November 21, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 12
Yesterday I began to wrap up my series of posts about getting site search right with the start of a step-by-step guide to transforming the style of Google results that users are familiar with, into something with a richer user experience. Add structured data Google understands a lot about the structure of the web. It understands how all the pages that it has crawled on your site are linked together, and uses this to understand what the key pages...
November 20, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 11
Transforming your results During the course of this series of articles, I've looked at various elements of interface design which have been employed, for better or for worse, across a wide range of European newspaper websites. Today I'm going to wrap up the series by laying out a step-by-step transformation of Google's search results listing into something that presents users who opt for 'site search' with a richer UI experience. Google's layout In part 2 of this series, I...
November 18, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 10
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts about getting site search right, based on my presentation at the 2008 Amsterdam Euro IA Summit. Today I wanted to look at some examples of poor search user experience design which you should seek to avoid. Don't use confusing gimmicks Lots of search technologies come with plenty of features in them for displaying relevancy to the user - almost all of them useless. Giving results a...
November 13, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 9
I've been writing a series of posts about getting site search right based on my presentation at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam this year In the last part I started looking at some examples where search user experience goes wrong. In order to entice the masses away from Google, a site search needs to be on the top of its game, and avoid things like intrusive adverts, opening unnecessary new windows, and providing an inconsistent experience. Another sure...
November 12, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 8
A couple of weeks back I began a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. As well as looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnails and information Google can't obtain, 'advanced' search, and following some positive European examples, I've been looking at areas of the user experience where designers need to show caution. Today I want to start looking at some examples of...
November 11, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 7
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts based on an expanded version of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam at the end of September. There, I was talking about "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google", and getting site search right for news. I've looked at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images, information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search,...
November 7, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 6
Last week I started a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. I've been looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images and information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search, and following some positive examples from newspaper sites across the continent. Today I want to look at two areas where designs need to exercise caution - 'scoped' search and the use of...
November 6, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 5
Since last week I've been posting a series of articles based upon an expanded version of my Amsterdam Euro IA Summit talk. Having looked at ideas like handling advanced search and adding thumbnail images to search results pages, today I want to concentrate on some positive examples of search user interface design from amongst Europe's newspaper website. Hide complicated features Sometimes it is better to hide complicated features. Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet has several options on their homepage search, some...
November 5, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 4
I've been presenting a series of articles based on my talk at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam about 'getting site search right for news'. Last week I looked at utilising information that Google can't obtain to make your UI distinctive, and adding thumbnail images into the search results page to improve relevancy recognition for users. Today I want to look at a perpetually tricky area - advanced search. In recent years, even offering advanced search has sometimes...
October 31, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 3
This week I've been presenting a series of posts based upon my Euro IA Summit presentation - "Taking the 'Ooh!' out of Google - Getting site search right for news". In an era where search usage is dominated by Google, it is important to make sure that site search doesn't just return great results, but that it does it in a way which offers a distinctive experience from Google. Yesterday I was looking at some of the information that...
October 30, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 2
Yesterday I started a series of articles based upon an expanded version of my presentation at the 2008 Euro IA Summit. Having introduced the problem of what to do with site search in an era dominated by Google, today I'm looking at some of the things you know about your content that Google cannot glean from web crawling. The trick to taking the 'Oooh' out of Google and putting it back into your site search is to use that...
October 29, 2008
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 1
Over the course of the next couple of weeks I want to present an expanded version of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam at the end of September. There I was talking about "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google" and getting site search right for news. Over this series of posts I hope to show how you can use additional information about content that Google can't get access to to make your site...
October 3, 2008
Take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam - Part 4
Over the last three days I've been blogging my take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 EuroIA Summit in Amsterdam. On Saturday morning I was giving my own talk on how to take the 'Ooh' out of Google and get site search right for news. Here is my final installment of commentary on the conference. "Documenting Mobile 2.0 IA" by Scott Weiss "Now you understand why the animated chart is so helpful, you wouldn't want to do this before...
October 2, 2008
Take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam - Part 3
Over the last weekend I was in Amsterdam attending the 2008 European Information Architecture Summit. The second day was when I was giving my own presentation, in the stunningly opulent Art Deco surroundings of the Tuschinski Theatre. I've been blogging about what caught my ear there, and here are my take-away facts and quotes from Saturday morning's sessions. Panel sessions There were two panel sessions at the conference. The first was an academic session entitled "Establishing a common ground...
October 1, 2008
Take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam - Part 2
Yesterday I started blogging some of my take-away facts and quotes from this year's Euro IA Summit at the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam. Here are some of the things that stood out for me on the Friday afternoon. "How do you re-design a business critical web application with billions of unique products" by Floris Ketel "KLM are in the room. If they have to correct me, I will get slapped" Floris Ketel was presenting a case study on the...
