Archive for May, 2008
CASE Web Awards
Although it’s not up on their website as yet, winners of the CASE Circle of Excellence awards have been named. See the results of the web section and read comments from the judges at mStonerblog.
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Webmonkey returns
Webmonkey has been home to one of the most referenced information architecture tutorials ever so it was with some happiness that I found out it is back online with a visual spruce up and more collaborative.
Highly recommended.
Via Jeffrey Veen.
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Tags: ia tutorials design coding
Get your ego off your site
When I did my first IA of a big university website, one of the largest hurdles was trying to convince people that the information they were responsible for providing should not always go on their department website. This was most pertinent when applied to information for prospective students. Future students are not familiar with the [...]
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Yesterday I was watching Twitter and:
You’ll need more than bribes I thought. For several years I blogged at the University of Sydney. I was also involved in providing a blogging platform for staff. Later I moderated the student blog. In all cases I was disappointed by the lack of actual blogging.
So what’s the problem?
The [...]
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Rosenfeld: Redesign must die
Having been through a number of university website ‘redesigns’ Rosenfeld’s presentation hit a nerve with me. The complexity of both the university website and the organisational structure and politics of the university itself make the grand redesign a hopeless task that is doomed to fail. The ‘project’ mentality that goes along with such redesigns makes [...]
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