from: ChrisFarnum 1 year ago

Site search for portals, intranets, e-commerce, and e-service sites often fails to deliver the results that users expect. If your search system isn’t delivering on these high expectations, an important question to ask is what (if anything) has been done to configure and optimize your site search tool. Given the fact that many organizations have already made a big investment in purchasing a search engine, it makes sense to explore ways to tune up your search engine before sending it to the digital scrap heap. If you are new to the area of site search and facing the challenge of how to rescue your site’s users from a frustrating search experience, this presentation will provide you with effective strategies, starting points and examples. It will also include opportunities for incorporating user testing and search analytics into the process of improving search. The strategies covered will range from the low-hanging fruit (taking better advantage of existing features) to the more robust solutions, which are possible when you have the option of customizing your search engine.

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from: rashmi 1 year ago

This is for the Social Information Architecture workshop at the Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas

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from: lrosenfeld 1 year ago

Presented by Lou Rosenfeld and Rich Wiggins at the 2007 ASIS&T IA Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 24, 2007.

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from: gsmith 1 year ago

My presentation for the Social IA Workshop at the IA Summit (March 22, 2007)

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from: aregh 1 year ago

Presentation for IASummit07 in Las Vegas, by Are and Mona Halland.

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from: rashmi 1 year ago

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from: dmalouf 1 year ago

This is the IA Summit 07 pre-conference workshop I gave on behalf of IxDA. It combines basic IxD theory with specific instructions for best design theory for RIAs.

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from: rashmi 1 year ago

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from: xian 1 year ago

Designing Experiences for the Mobile Web. Basic choices and considerations in mobile web information architecture and a brief case study

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from: xian 1 year ago

Learning from Failure: Or How IAs Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bombs

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from: rashmi 1 year ago

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from: absolutesubzero 1 year ago

FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classification scheme to improve the system information architecture.

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from: jamesr 1 year ago

Looks at the use of ethnographic techniques within organisations to understand real staff needs and issues.

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from: jessmcmullin 1 year ago

Jess McMullin's IA Summit 2007 talk.

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from: awright249 1 year ago

Alex Wright's presentation from the 2007 Information Architecture Summit, exploring the history of early hypertext and other networked information systems. Focuses on the work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson and Andries Van Dam, in search of clues about how the Web might have turned out differently.

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from: leisa 1 year ago

My intro slides for our IA Summit 07 panel

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from: austingovella 1 year ago

Big IA is the way you do, not what you do. Six tips for affecting your organization's strategy.

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from: doconner 1 year ago

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from: stephenpa 1 year ago

With the proliferation of rich Internet applications and interactions more closely aligned with how people think, we face some interesting challenges: * Do we design for one common audience and common tasks, or tailor applications around specific audiences and their unique activities? * How do we resolve the tension between creating simple applications that ‘do less’ and the demand for new features that some people really do need? * As we move beyond usability to create desirable interfaces, how do we handle a subjective domain like emotions? These types of challenges could all be addressed by creating a truly ‘adaptive' interface. More than removing unused menu options or collaborative filtering, this would include functionality that is revealed over time as well as interface elements that change based on usage. Imagine the web-based email client that begins offering three forms fields for attachments instead of the default one, because it 'noticed' that you frequently upload more than one file. Or the navigation menu that disappears because it is not relevant to the task at hand. Sound scary? Look at the world of game design, where inconsistency has never been an issue and where users learn new functions over time, as needed. In the same ways that ads are becoming more targeted around context and behavior, we can also create interfaces that respond, suggest, or change based on actual usage data. While much of this is still speculative, we'll explore some concrete examples of how such ideas have already been used, and other instances where they could be used. We'll also take a brief look at what technologies might support these interactions, as well as some of the rules engines that might make this possible. And, to ground this in the past, we'll at some existing navigational theories and research that might support this argument for an interface that is truly conversational and context aware.

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from: livlab 1 year ago

My brief intro to our panel during the IA Summit 2007

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