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Sunday, July 07, 2002
Usability Design
Extreme Usability.[High Context]Here is a case study about applying a usability methodology to a short, iterative, design project: Applying usability techniques to deadline-driven projects (found via Column Two).
This piece gives some good questions to ask when starting a project.
Check out the flow-chart. How many boxes in the chart did you hit during the last design project you worked on?
More from Mower on liveTopics
I'll have to try this to see where it's going -- a little difficult to visualize. But I can see how the abiltiy to quickly cross-reference topics along project, business function, or interest lines could improve usability.
liveTopics progress.[Curiouser and curiouser!]Only a week after I had hoped to release version 1.0 of liveTopics and I'm nearly there.
I've had a lot of good feedback from uber-testers Marc Barrot and Jack Mancilla. This thing should be pretty well shaken out when it arrives.
The basic functionality is now all in place. You can successfully add topics to posts, have them displayed with the post and traverse the weblog using the Topic Table of Contents (TTOC).
The TTOC, for example Curiouser and curiouser! shows every topic defined in the weblog. For each topic it lists the weblog posts associated with that topic, in chronological order. Each of these postings in turn lists the other topics associated with that particular posting. The end result is a very easy way to traverse the weblog following threads of thought.
Things that are in the pipeline just past v1.0:
- Exporting topic information in your RSS stream.
- Clever aggregators will be able to use this topic information to rank & prioritize postings in your news view.
- Topic Mining
- Quickly and easily add topic information to archive postings
- Sharing topics
- Your topics will be published as XTM topic maps.
- Subscript to other users topic rolls and be able to use their topics as well
Please let me know of any other ideas you would like to see implemented.
More IM/KM/intranet Pointers from Matt Mower
Another IM/KM/intranet pointer from Matt Mower. For futher investigation.
BlogAgent.[Curiouser and curiouser!]Russell Beattie has a new IM-based blog notifier called BlogAgent, written in Java and open source. [Scripting News
» Just started using BlogAgent. The ability to see who else is watching pages you are watching is pretty cool.
Info Tools Compendium
Software for Information Professionals.[Curiouser and curiouser!]I'm on the look out for software that improves my lot as an information producer/consumer. I came across this article by Peter Morville which talks about software for Information Architects.
He identifies the following categories of tool:
- Automated Classification
- Automated Category Generation
- Search Engines
- Thesaurus Management
- Collaborative Filtering
- Portal Solutions
- Content Management
- Analytics
- Database Management
- Information Architecture Productivity
(Note some of the tool urls are now dead. This article was written in 2001)
As an individual I'm more interested in personal solutions than enterprise solutions. This means that I like tools like Copernic Summarizer and Personal Brain which put me in the driving seat. But I hope to have my own servers soon so I'll be interested in bigger solutions too.
Do you have a tool that you swear by?
More good pointers from Matt Mower.
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