Category Archives: Information Architecture

IDEA Conference

I just returned from the 2008 IDEA conference, a yearly conference about “Information: Design, Experience and Access” sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute and thought I’d write a bit about some of the speakers I took in at the conference:
On Day 1, I took in the pre-conference workshop with Paul Gould and David Bishop from [...]

Planning for content

The heart of a website is the content within it. Content drives traffic to website, and connects a visitor through words & images to a company, product, or idea. 
Lately I’ve been working on projects that require significant thought and planning for content. I thought I would share some tips for planning for content (some I [...]

Exploring the semantic web

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 [...]

Travel safe

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

Oh la la – a new and cool sounding conference!

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 [...]