Discourse around Emergent Information Architecture- July 12, 2006 A couple of great blog posts by Peter Merholz Emergent IA and Gene Smith 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.http://iaslash.org/node/7722 Christopher Fahey writes an interesting series on the Smoke & Mirrors of user research.- July 12, 2006 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.http://iaslash.org/node/7721 |