Articles & Papers

An Interview with Lou Rosenfeld and Liz Danzico
I recently had the opportunity to interview Lou — along with Liz Danzico, Senior Development Editor at Rosenfeld Media — about starting a new publishing house and “eating their own dog food.”
UX Matters
Card Sorting: An Inexpensive and Practical Usability Technique (PDF - 315KB)
Card sorting is often inexpensive, quick, and easy. Learn when to use this method and how to perform a card sort of your own within your company.
STC Intercom
Accessible and Usable Web Design (PDF - 510KB)
Accessibility and usability are typically addressed separately, but several recent studies have studied the convergence of these topics. This study aims to further explore the relationships between these two concepts through direct observation of both disabled and non-disabled users.
M.S. Human Computer Interaction, University College London
Practical Usability Testing
Usability testing should be an iterative practice, completed several times during the design and development life-cycle. The end result is an improved product and a better understanding of the users that we’re designing for.
Digital Web Magazine
Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design
Web designers have been led to believe that they’re restricted to doing what they’ve always done and should leave the information architecture to the information architects. This does not have to happen.
Digital Web Magazine
Getting IA Done, Part I
People are crazy about Getting Things Done these days. First there was 43 Folders, then Lifehacker. Now there’s To-Done and LifeHack. I thought it was about time information architects had a turn.
Digital Web Magazine
Getting IA Done, Part II
I asked Digital Web Magazine readers to send me their favorite tips to publish in Part II. I’ve included most of the submissions in this column.
Digital Web Magazine