Category Archives: Information Architecture

Tools for Testing Information Architecture

UXmatters is a great resource for (unsurprisingly) UX-related articles, such as information architecture, usability, and user research. An article from February 22nd, “Review of Information Architecture Evaluation Tools: Chalkmark and Treejack,” provides a great overview of two user research tools from Optimal Workshop.
The first, Chalkmark, allows unmoderated testing of static mockups. You can put up [...]

Information Architecture… Category Theory, Part II

Yesterday I wrote a post about how one theme in Lakoff’s book “Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things”, the way that categories display prototype effects, can be applied to web classification schemes.
The second major takeaway from Lakoff’s theory of categorization, the status of basic-level categories, requires some understanding of what is so unique about Lakoff’s approach [...]

Information Architecture: Insight from Category Theory

What does a very dense book written by a cognitive linguist have to do with Information Architecture, especially when there are some good texts already on this subject, such as the O’Reilly book, or the one written by Peter Van Dijck? More than you might think. So much, in fact, that this may turn [...]

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