[LINK] Information architecture in Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

The Eleventh Canberra WSG meeting was held 4 October at the National 
Library of Australia in Canberra 
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=100>.

Donna Maurer, from Maadmob Interaction Design  talked on Information 
architecture - Beyond the hierarchy:

She said how strict and polyhierarchies are common for government web 
site designs, but there are alternatives, such as metadata-driven 
database, faceted classifications (sorted by attributes of entities), 
organic structures and tagging.

Andrew Boyd, SMS Management & Technology, on prototyping as part of 
the web design process:

He demonstrated a web interface prototype tool AXURE. The example he 
showed was of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme schedule on a PDA. 
This would be a good use for a prototype tool as it would need a 
difference interface to the average web page. One worry I have is 
that much of what web designers are doing is reinventing software 
development techniques, by trial and error.

More at: <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/10/information-architecture.html>.



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