Today's Topic: Information Architecture II & Usability

We’ll follow up on last week’s material, talking more about thesauri, taxonomies, and ontologies. Then we’ll segue into usability and navigation issues.

We’ll also look at different kinds of web tools for collaborative site and information development, including wikis and the del.icio.us bookmarking site.

Readings on IA and Usability

• “How we really use the Web,” a chapter from Steve Krug’s wonderful book, Don’t Make Me Think!
• Jakob Nielsen’s “Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003” and “Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines”
• Information Architecture is not Usability, from Digital Web Magazine
• The Glass Wall, an internal document from a corporate web redesign project (download the 7.9MB PDF file from myCourses)