Category Archives: Information Architecture

Exploring the semantic web

Friday, March 28, 2008 – 10:52 AM

Just wanted to post a quick note relaying an excellent blog post I came across yesterday by Alex Iskold of ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies
Habañero has already been employing semantic markup such as the hCard and hCalendar microformats for several recent projects, so this is especially relevant to our business.
The addition of semantic information to […]

By Nick | Also posted in Semantic Web, User Experience | Comments (1)

Travel safe

Thursday, December 20, 2007 – 6:38 PM

Just in time for your holiday trips, check out the newly designed travel insurance application at Pacific Blue Cross. We worked with their development team to design and integrate the new front end. Hats off to Hilla for IA, Kathleen for design and Mark for UE dev.

Pacific Blue Cross Travel Plans

By Kathleen | Also posted in Design, Team Work, User Experience | Comments (0)

Oh la la - a new and cool sounding conference!

Thursday, August 30, 2007 – 10:23 AM

For those of us interested in user experience and interaction design (and furthering our skills in those areas) we’ve got a new conference to whet our appetites!
It is called Interaction 08, and is put on by the venerable IxDA. Happening in Savannah, Georgia from February 8 to 10, 2008, the conference has a pretty wicked […]

By Joni | Also posted in Design, User Experience | Comments (0)

Getting consensus on scope with a large stakeholder group

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 – 2:05 PM

I find that one of the most challenging parts of the consulting process involves getting a large group of decision makers to agree on project scope. Not only can the process be time consuming, but there are often politics at play behind the scene (or right in the scene, for that matter!) that can make […]

By Mallory | Also posted in Blogs by Author, Intranet, Team Work | Comments (0)

How a snappy widget can improve home page content

Monday, March 26, 2007 – 10:51 AM

One of the major information architecture and interaction design challenges is in determining the perfect content balance for a website’s home page. The home page is packed with potential — by balancing just the right amount of high-level content with appropriate, contextual details, the home page for a public-facing website can influence a user’s perception […]

By Mallory | Also posted in Intranet | Comments (3)