Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

on Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, chapters 3 and 4

Morville and Rosenfeld (2006) identify four different “information needs” that inform user search behavior, which in turn should impact the work of the information architect in organizing a web site or other information environment –

A user looking for an answer performs a search and finds [...]

on the 2AdvancedStudios website, http://2advanced.com

The overall feel of the website is similar to a video game, which—considering the client list of 2 Advanced Studios includes Sony Computer Entertainment and Nintendo of America—makes a great deal of sense. I am curious, though, if the site has been updated in some time since the last news is [...]

on the website of Peter Morville’s consulting firm, Semantic Studios, http://www.semanticstudios.com/

Since Peter Morville is one of the leading voices in the field of Information Architecture, I’m sure his archived column is filled with important thoughts on the subject, as are his books. I’ve read David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous and Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, and [...]

on the website of the IA Summit, http://iasummit.org/napkin/

The most appropriate immediate response to this front page is happy surprise – I expect this sort of design is not only charming, but is functionally brilliant. It demonstrates what the course readings have claimed as the goal of good information architecture in terms of its easy understandability [...]