Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Bradley Horowitz at The Next Web 09 courtesy of
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After Jeff Jarvis had his take on Google we had somebody from the inside – Bradley Horowitz.Horowitz was the man who advised Yahoo to buy Flickr and after redefining his role there he made them acquire Delicious. Previously he had formed Virage (video categorization engine) and sold it to Autonomy after dropping out of his degree at MIT Medialab where he worked on image categorisation technologies. (more…) |
Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Google, Mental Models, Metadata, search technology, Semantic search, Tagging, Taxonomy, Technology
Posted in Mental Models, Metadata, search technology, Semantic search, Tagging, Taxonomy, Technology | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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I read a post recently that illustrated how concept models are rarely used in the right way and are often misunderstood. Are they really worth doing at all?
Now seems a good time to expand on the tool that Dan Brown has popularised through his book Communicating Design. Not as simply a stand alone tool but one that can provide a blueprint for giving solid ROI on design, analytics and testing.
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Tags: Agile, Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Diagrams, Experience Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Mental Models, Mind Maps, Taxonomy, user, User Centred Design, Web Metrics, Wireframes
Posted in Agile, Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Diagrams, Experience Design, Information Architecture, Mental Models, Mind Maps, Taxonomy, User Centred Design, User Experience, Web Metrics, Wireframes | 4 Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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When you organise content on a web site, how can you be confident its relevant and clear for your users? The following walk-through tells of how you can ensure you build a site with users’ interests at heart.
What is a taxonomy?
The term ‘taxonomy’ is a bit of a misnomer, having its origins in Biological study denoting sub-species within a species classification. However, in the business sense of the word, taxonomies can encompass a whole range of different elements that, broadly speaking, are ways of classifying content under categories recognised by a user group.
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Tags: Taxonomy, taxonomy design, Taxonomy Management, Teragram, User Centred Design
Posted in Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Information Architecture, Metadata, Personas, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management, User Centred Design, User Experience, User stories, Wireframes | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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Published here, the first in a two-part article I have written about the mechanics of creating user centred taxonomies. |
Tags: Information Architecture, Taxonomy, taxonomy design, UCD, User Centred Design
Posted in Design Practice, Information Architecture, Taxonomy, UCD | No Comments »