Information Architecture 3.0
Peter Morville responds to the ‘IA is Dead’, or dying, or irrelevant, or not as cool as Interaction Design discussion that’s been bubbling about lately
(tags: informationarchitecture)

Ozchi keynote: User centred design: is it working
Donna Maurer’s keynote to the OZCHI conference in Sydney… I’ve had a quick look at the slides, and it looks interesting [...]

Using the RITE method to improve products; a definition and two case studies
Rapid Iterative Testing & Evalutation. The method leads to a high ratio of problems found to fixes made and then empirically verifies the efficacy of the fixes.
(tags: agiledesign usability testing)

So, the Scobles are in town (London) this week. I’m kind of interested to see what they’re like but… call me daft, I’ve got to say I’m a little intimidated by the idea of meeting them (and all the cool bloggers they’re bound to be hanging out with).
So, I was wondering whether anyone else might [...]

Grow Your Site, Keep Your Users
eBay’s take on design, usability, when to believe users, when users perceptions are more important than the truth, agile design and just generally keeping things simple
(tags: ebay usability casestudy agiledesign)

Rumours of the impending death of Information Architecture have been greatly exaggerated, but I think it is true that the Information Architect you were five years ago is very different to what you’ll be in five years time. (In fact, it’s probably very different already).
These rumours seem to have been kicked off by ‘important people [...]

The Freedom of Fast Iterations: How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site
“We make a lot of this stuff up as we go along,.. We don’t assume anything works and we don’t like to make predictions without real-world tests.’
(tags: agiledesign methodology casestudy interactiondesign usability)

Little Book of Flow in HTML
The premise of this essay is that those exquisite but all too rare moments when we experience ‘flow’, when we are truly creative, happy and intuitively know exactly what is needed, are simply those instances when we glimpse our original and true nature.
(tags: flow creativity happiness)

The Road to the Semantic [...]

The Significance of Threadless.com (O’Reilly)
Threadless is ‘is a “crowd-sourced” manufacturing business’
(tags: threadless community design socialSoftware web2.0)

Workplace pressures deter female techies from having children - Information Professional Sector News
Read this. It’s very interesting. Particularly the divergence in perception between men and women.
(tags: gender)

How do we make Good Design so important to companies that they ensure that it is a component part of the product or service they are taking to market?
Part of the fallout from World Usability Day was a question raised by Jared Spool - Is World Usability Day Harmful for Practitioners? Part of this question [...]

It’s been a while between links, so here’s a big list for you to enjoy!

Play buttons and YouTube’s interface - (37signals)
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never thought about interface design as being a factor for YouTube’s success… but now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense.
(tags: youtube interfacedesign)

altchi - call for [...]