Article — — 498 words

Information architecture — Web

Work:

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. We are currently working on a project that will provide a subtle but significant improvement in the navigation of the internal University of St Andrews websites (for current staff, students and postgraduates). What we have just now Currently, the […]

Linknote — — 51 words

Information architecture — Media — Technology — User experience

Surveying search across British online newspapers — Martin Belam — currybetdotnet

Currybet has a series of posts reviewing the search features of newspapers’ websites. This post summarises the results. He rates The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail most highly. I would agree with the latter two, although the last time I tried to search TimesOnline it was a complete nightmare.

Article — — 305 words

Information architecture — Technology

There is an interesting post at canspice.org about tagging (not to be confused with the tagging that you get with memes). Tagging already has a couple of well-known problems. One of the major ones is the confusion over whether you should use singular or plural. Flickr cleverly bypassed the other problem — words such as […]