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The eye of the information hurricane

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:34 PM by David Carlson
"Information architecture at its best is not about the cool, the newest, or the latest. Information architecture is about the breath, the pause, the stillness in the eye of the information hurricane." Grant Campbell has posted a great Boxes and Arrows Read More...
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Feedback on Class Library Documentation

Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:11 PM by David Carlson
Miro Adamy has a blog entry on the shortcomings of the .NET Framework class library documentation on MSDN. See the posting and comments here: MSDN Documentation - the worst in class ? As it turns out, solutions to the majority of the design complaints Read More...
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I Declare

Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:52 AM by David Carlson
When an API reference page relates to an entity that can also be created or manipulated with declarative syntax (such as ASP.NET and XAML), how much of the declarative information should appear on the page, and where should it appear? Mike Pope has a Read More...
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Sam Guckenheimer: Value-up Design

Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:04 PM by David Carlson
Sam Guckenheimer has posted a summary of the tenets for what he calls value-up design , which is the principle behind the process that's in place for the next version of Visual Studio. Exercise for the reader (and this writer): map out the implications Read More...
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:13 PM by David Carlson
Another classic of design is Alan Cooper's book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity . Cooper's main theses are that (1) software products should be thoroughly designed before they are Read More...
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The Elements of User Experience

Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:55 AM by David Carlson
I'm working my way through some of the classics of information architecture. As it happens, the first item on my list was The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett. As you can see by the title, the focus Read More...
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