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IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets - Part 4
This is part 4 of a 4 part article - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Another approach that adds more value and entertainment to widgets is including 'Easter Eggs' - hidden bits of content or functionality triggered by specific user actions. The recent marketing campaign for U2's U23D concert movie was a great example of this. Users could download a widget which carried clips of the movie, behind-the-scenes footage, and news about the film leading up to...

Read the full post - Published April 20, 2008 in IA Summit, Widgets

IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets - Part 3
This is part 3 of a 4 part article - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Now I want to move on and look at a dimension that is often-underused on websites, but can be absolutely crucial for widgets - time. It is fine to have a website or mini-site devoted to coverage of a specific event, and to leave that untouched at the end of the event as an archive of what happened. This particularly applies to...

Read the full post - Published April 19, 2008 in IA Summit, Widgets

IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets - Part 2
This is part 2 of a 4 part article - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Let us imagine a company, that has just been told by their whizzy new internet consultant that they need to develop their widget strategy if they are to stay relevant to their target audience. The company - Nom Nom - makes small fluffy toys of baby animals, aimed at the pocket money of their target market, 9 to 15 year old girls....

Read the full post - Published April 18, 2008 in IA Summit, Widgets

IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets - Part 1
This is part 1 of a 4 part article - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 We are all familiar with the basic history of how mankind developed the written word. Initially, to keep any message preserved, or available to be read by a large audience, you basically had to bang it into the side of some rock. This wasn't a very portable format, and it certainly didn't have RSS feeds. Over time humans improved their written communication,...

Read the full post - Published April 17, 2008 in Articles, IA Summit, Widgets

Take-away facts, quotes and top tips from the 2008 IA Summit - Day 3
I've just come back from Miami, where I was giving a talk about 'IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets' at the 2008 IA Summit. Here's my take on Day 3. Search Patterns - Peter Morville The first thing I went to on Monday was the repeat session of Peter Morville's 'Search Patterns' presentation. He seems to be doing a great job of discovering and exposing every possible variation on search interfaces that there is on the web. What...

Read the full post - Published April 16, 2008 in IA Summit

Take-away facts, quotes and top tips from the 2008 IA Summit - Day 2
I've spent the weekend in Miami at the 2008 IA Summit, where I was giving a talk on 'IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets'. Yesterday I published a round-up of my take-away facts, quotes and top tips from Day 1 of the conference. Here's my take on Day 2. Extending the gaming experience to conventional UI’s - John Ferrara I think it is a generation thing, but I've been to several presentations now at conferences where someone basically...

Read the full post - Published April 15, 2008 in IA Summit

Take-away facts, quotes and top tips from the 2008 IA Summit - Day 1
The IA Summit started here in Miami in earnest on Saturday morning, and I'm due to give my presentation today. As I did with the Euro IA Summit in Barcelona last year, I thought I would put together a summary of my take-away facts, quotes and top tips, on a day-by-day basis. Journey to the Center of Design - Jared Spool Jared was very entertaining and energetic as a keynote. His premise was that User-Centred Design was the stone in...

Read the full post - Published April 14, 2008 in IA Summit

My IA Summit plans
Karen Loasby just published the schedule of what she is hoping to attend at the IA Summit this weekend, which prompted me to sit down and do some early planning to make sure I get to see all that I want to see. Fortunately, it seems that all of the sessions will be available for download in audio format after the conference, so you can't completely miss anything, and luckily there don't seem to be too many big clashes...

Read the full post - Published April 7, 2008 in IA Summit

Search the blogs of the Miami IA Summit
I've put together another couple of tools for people attending, or interested, in the upcoming IA Summit in Miami in April. I've made a Google Custom Search Engine, which allows you to search over the blogs and personal sites of speakers and attendees. I've doubled the number of sources from the 37 bloggers speaking at the conference I previously identified. As well as searching over the conference's official site, the custom search engine will return results from another 36 personal...

Read the full post - Published February 15, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search

IA Summit bloggers mash-up feed
Last week I published a list of 37 bloggers who are participating in the 2008 IA Summit in Miami in April. As well as in individual list, there was an OPML file to allow you import all of the sites into your feed reader of choice in one go. I've now put together an alternative way to subscribe to them. I've mashed 35 of the feeds together using the awesome Yahoo! Pipes - partly thanks to Kevin Cheng who features...

Read the full post - Published February 4, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS, Yahoo

Personal search engine optimsation for Information Architects

Published February 2, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search

IA Summit bloggers

Published January 31, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS

IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets at the 2008 IA Summit in Miami

Published January 28, 2008 in IA Summit, Widgets