Category: Information Architecture


Microspaces: The next GUI?

Microspaces represent a new method of nesting content. The concept utilizes Microsoft’s Nested GUI technology to create nested content wells that expand into full (or at least larger) windows on hover. The technique is smooth, easy to grasp and reduces clicks drastically. It also puts an enormous amount of content into a single space. Here’s […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Can this new search engine “un-verb” Google?

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) launched today. I am still playing around with it and it certainly seems worth taking a second look. It claims to have a search index that spans 120 billion web pages (According to Cuil’s developers that number could be three times the size of Google’s index). Cuil’s search is also “Contextual”. And unlike […]

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Posted by udayan on Monday, July 28th, 2008

Top ten things you must do for a good user experience

Provide search: No site is too small for a search engine. Unless it’s only a single serving site.
Site maps: Some information architects will argue that if a visitor needs to resort to a site map or site index, the navigation has already failed. Whether or not that’s true is really not important. What is important […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Monday, February 18th, 2008