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Information Architecture (IA) is part of the foundation upon which all websites are created. Sometimes this aspect of building a website gets short changed – with disastrous results.
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Backstory:
In January of 2010, shortly after I took up a consulting gig at Reuters, I noticed a disturbing pattern: 4 times in a single month, we had to take down an ad from the site because it was overlaying other elements on the page – most frequently affecting the main site navigation drop down – creating a really bad user experience. (At the time, Reuters had just relaunched with this new site a month ago – thus why the bug wasn’t diagnosed/fixed yet). Advertisers were setting the z-index of their ads at a higher number than our own key page elements – most frequency the main site navigation.
What is the internet? A giant series of tubes, an evil satanic death machine, or an incredibly dangerous and addictive distraction from life? Some very misguided psychologists seem to believe it’s definitely the latter. So where are they getting this idea from and what are they trying to do about it?
What does everyone want in life? Drugs Money or Sex. Not the business-time answer you were expecting? Well bear with me and you’ll quickly see what I mean.
Much of industrial design over the past 60 years or so has moved from aesthetic principles to vandal-proof principles. – Kevin Walsh
Kevin Walsh is one of those great NYC originals that occasionally bleeds curmudgeonry. A history nerd and general hater of new things, his above quote from facebook struck a nerve and opened a conversation into how much times have changed, as reflected in industrial design. I couldn’t help but to pick it up as a longer blog post.
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Every 3 minutes, it comes back on. You can turn it off all you want, but it comes back time and time again – like a dysfunctional ex who didn’t just get the message and refused to comprehend the reality that you’re sick of looking at him/her.
Who the hell thought this POS was a good idea?
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I was floating around an in-room pool in Antigua last month when my better half told me that Google had just announced their new javascript-killer language – ‘Dart’. It was one of the only times while on vacation that I wanted to choke someone (the other time being at the airport – worst airport in the world).
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There’s nothing more telling than an error message. Errors say it like it is and don’t try to polish over an ugly situation. Errors are priceless, especially if you’re working on a huge website with limited resources.
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