Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Information Design using Card Sorting "The difficulty in organising the content stems from a lack of knowledge about how real users make use of this information. Without this, any exercise in information design is a purely theoretical one. A card sorting session can go a long way towards resolving this problem." [at Intranet Journal, via ia/] Filing away for future reference because I want to try this technique when we start re-designing the SLS Web site to turn it into a portal. 10:35:09 PM

And speaking of usability, I want to change the way my posts look and read.  I want to put a small icon next to each new post so that it's easier to distinguish between them.  Then I want to do something besides italicize quoted material, because I think it makes it more difficult to read.  I don't want to put it in a different color because I'll eventually be designing my own templates. Do you have any ideas?  Maybe just indent and quote the material?  Thoughts welcome. I also want to add titles at the top of each post, even though Radio won't pick them up as honest-to-god titles. I'd like to make the background color on these different, again to better delineate them. Suggestion for Dave and the Radio crew: add an option in the WYSIWYG editor for background color of a span done in CSS. I could do it manually, but that would defeat the point of using the editor. 6:11:54 PM

Information Specialists at the Intersection of IA and Usability [via ia/] This is an interesting article in its own right, but I just had to share this section: "In a speech last year, GraceAnne DeCandido described the lure of librarianship by saying: For most of us, what brought us to librarianship was the power of the word, the power of stories. Whether we called it reading, or scholarship, or research or study, what brought us to libriarianship was the power inherent in bringing together people and ideas. She went on to say: If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas, it doesn’t matter where the ideas reside. That means, if the ideas are on video, or on audiotape, or on CD- ROM, we adapted our collection policies to handle these materials. Format is no longer the controversial issue it once was. Or is it?" 6:07:31 PM

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