Articles

Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best Practices

Friday, February 22, 2008

By Amber Swope, Principal Consultant, JustSystems - Reprinted with permission from DM Review

The increasing popularity of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) means that more users within an organization are looking to repurpose and reuse content across the ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : DITA : Information Architecture

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

Communicating Design: An Astonishingly Close Look At What Makes IA Documentation Work

Friday, October 05, 2007

Every document created by information architects contains many layers of information. Too few layers of information, and the ideas within lose context and meaning. Too many layers, and the important ideas become obscured. Choosing the right ideas to include can make or ...

Filed under: Information Architecture

Visualizing the USA: Making Public Information Public

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Richard Saul Wurman, the father of information architecture, believes “Public information should be made public.” His work, Understanding USA, published in 2000, is an excellent resource for those looking for guidance in the presentation of complex ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Information Architecture

One Tech Writer’s “Lifework” Spawns An Information Architecture Career

Friday, November 17, 2006

By Thom Haller, special to TheContentWrangler.com

I wasn’t born an information architect. I couldn’t even figure out what I was going to do when I grew up. I thought, somehow, a career would materialize in a dream—that I would wake one morning and say, “I’m going to ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Information Architecture : Technical Writing : Career Information

Lisa Welchman: Finding and Reclassifying A Former Planet Creates Content Challenges

Sunday, October 01, 2006

In her CMS Advisor site, content management maven Lisa Welchman writes about the recent reclassification of Pluto. Welchman manages to link George Miller’s 1956 paper: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information ...

Filed under: Content Management : Podcasts : Information Architecture : Taxonomy : Mishaps and Mistakes

Information Architect Becomes Seattle’s “Wayfinder”

Thursday, September 21, 2006

An interesting post to the Information Architecture Institute listserv asks: “When we move from two-dimensional virtual spaces to three-dimensional spaces, are we still information architects, or are we just architects? Is there a difference? When we move from rich ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Information Architecture