One good resource for your information architecture assignment is Wireframes Magazine. Essentially a blog with brief posts on a particular approach to or development in information architecture. Their recent post is on Content Sitemaps, which encourages more details about page content on a site map. I’ve used the Tracing Paper Layers approach to an IA problem often, and have found it a great way to try out and share new ideas quickly.
Online Tools for Site Maps, Diagrams, and Wireframes
Just in time for our week discussing information architecture, site maps, and wireframes, here are a few online tools for creating site maps and wireframes, and sharing them with others:
Give one or all of these a try for your project!
Visualization Resources
Following up on our reading and discussion last week with David Staley, here are a few resources for and discussions about visualization:
Resources
Books
- Edward R. Tufte, Beautiful Evidence (Graphics Press, 2006).
- Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information (Graphics Press, 1990).
- Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008).
- Nancy Duarte, slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008).
- Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, and Matthias Hubner, Tactile: High Touch Visuals (Dgv, 2007).
- Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures (Portfolio Hardcover, 2008).
Web Sites and Pages
- Jodi , “I cite: Tag clouds and the decline of symbolic efficiency,”.
- well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing information flow in science
- “Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc.”
Tools and APIs
- Flare
- GeoCommons
- Google Chart API—Easily create charts and graphs.
- Many Eyes
You can find more visualization resources on my Delicious tag for “visualization.” or at
Student Page
I hope everyone’s enjoying the reading! These are two of my favorite books, so I’m really looking forward to discussing them with you. We’re lucky to have David Staley join us by video chat Monday night (and he’s also a big fan of McCloud’s book), so please post responses to the reading by tomorrow so he and I will have time to review them before class.
On a related note, I’ve created a Students page that lists links to individual student blogs in addition to aggregating recent posts from everyone’s blogs. There’s an RSS feed for that list that you can use to keep up with posts from other students. If you’re name isn’t listed on that page, that means you either haven’t registered for this site, or did but left the website field blank. Once you add that link, your posts should show up in the aggregated list soon after.
Getting Started
Welcome to Clio Wired 2! We’ll be discussing the course syllabus tonight. Please take some time before our next class to register for this course site, and provide your blog URL.
The design still needs some updates, and I need to add content to the homepage and the Students page. I’ll use this space to provide updates about the course, and share any articles or websites relevant to our class meetings.
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