Posts tagged in ‘Information Architecture’

When your sponsors affect your customer experiencePosted on January 13, 2009

You would think that concert tickets would be one of the simplest systems to design from a usability and IA perspective. User searches for event, selects dates and tickets and then goes through purchase funnel.
I’m constantly amazed at how often ticket companies get online wrong. Moshtix are great and I’ve always had a good [...]

Tags: Design, Information Architecture, Usability

Flickr launches new homepagePosted on October 16, 2008

Flickr blogged a few weeks ago about a major design change to the flickr homepage, and it just launched today.

It has some pretty big interaction design changes - they have now combined all the latest activity, so new comments/favourites/notes/tags on your photo show up in the same area as comments you’ve made on other [...]

Tags: Design, Information Architecture

Just tell me when Falls Festival is…Posted on August 13, 2008

I am a big fan of Flash when it is used correctly and wisely, just like everything else. JavaScript, Lightbox, Adobe AIR, even Comic-sans can be used in ways that often improve the user experience rather than being a roadblock preventing it.
But it usually doesn’t work out this way. I know great Flash developers out [...]

Tags: Design, Information Architecture, Usability

Online Quotes - Why Bother?Posted on July 23, 2008

For some reason over the last week I have been doing a lot of searching online for stuff that is complicated and needs a lot of info or numbers to add up before they can give me a price, or even a ballpark estimate.
Today it’s a green slip for my motorbike which is due in [...]

Tags: Information Architecture, Usability