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I was really hoping to find similar libraries for the task but haven't been able to find anything like it. yWorks does have its own libraries (for a price) but the licensing cost is prohibitive for my intended use.
I love the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan. I love the little hotel that I usually stay at because it's right there, near the library. I love that our NY office is just a block or two away. I love the Rose Reading Room, where I can camp out and get some work done in all that light and space and on those lovely long tables lit by those beautiful copper lamps.
A long long time ago I designed the information architecture for the Seattle Public Library's web site where I proposed a component of their site design that they still use today -- a library locator that, when selected, takes the visitor to a page that's dedicated to their local branch. I know: seems like a no brainer today. ;) But this was before MapQuest even (I'm pretty sure) and the Seattle Public Library was working hard to get the public behind funding of a new downtown library building, and they kept hearing complaints from folks who said "MY library is my LOCAL branch." So we wanted to make that idea clear and inclusive in the information architecture of the site. Which we did. [1]
I learned a few months after it went live from my SPL client that she met with the folks from NYPL and they commented that they really liked that locator feature. So guess what they did? Yep: got one of their own.
So yeah: there is a little piece of me that is over the moon happy to think that the NYPL has a little piece of me on their website. Because that part that's stored deep in my heart? The one that loves climbing those double branching stairways and double dog digs the marble washrooms: it's the deep heart parts that are often the hardest to see.
[1] And a footnote: The original execution -- which is no longer out there -- had all of the branches displayed as links on screen in the right hand rail. It's now a dropdown menu which I don't dig as much. It doesn't tell the story in the same way: It doesn't have the same heft that says "We are Us."
AOLme is the conceptual prototype of what is called AIM pages today.
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Client: Nike
Agency: R/GA
Released: 2008
Creative Director: Joseph Cartman
Senior Producer: Reshma Taufiq
Producer: Adrian Lai
Senior Interaction Designer: Andrew Chee
Art Director: David Hyung
Senior Visual Designer: Michael Reger
Visual Designer: Chadwick Shao
Jr. Visual Designer: Grace Chia
Copywriter: Jim Therkalsen
Technical Director: Noel Billig
Senior Flash Programmer: Kumi Tominaga
Senior Flash Programmer: Aaron Ambrose
Senior Flash Programmer: Carrie Kengle
Flash Programmer: Geoffrey Roth
Flash Programmer: David Holm
Just the thing after a long day of eating and drinking. Boy, do vacations take a lot out of you - and put a lot into you.
AOLme is the conceptual prototype of what is called AIM pages today.
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AOLme is the conceptual prototype of what is called AIM pages today.
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...rather than a sane taxonomic process like genre, author or an indexing system. 😅
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Personal Work - working on infographics
"Ook de productie van de petflessen is slecht voor het milieu. Voor het produceren van een plastic fles van 1 liter is 0,1 liter olie nodig. Daarnaast is tussen de 2 en 5 liter water nodig per petfles om de machines te koelen; twee tot vijf keer meer dan de daadwerkelijke inhoud van de fles."
short translation: for the production of a 1 liter plastic bottle 0,1 liter of oil is needed and 2 up to 5 liter of water.
This is what happens when your dad is an information architect - you have as much fun SORTING and classifying your candy as you do eating it.
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Eyetracking material allows you to see what users have looked at, but not necessarily what they have seen.
This week, we will answer the following question: “How does the brain choose to guide the eye from one place to the other?”
Yes, you read it correctly. Because it is the brain that guides the eye so it can find the information the brain needs to solve a task.
More info on www.simplifyinginterfaces.com
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Andrea Resmini, Jim Kalbach, Carsten Schmidt and I were all speaking at the first Polish Information Architecture Summit in Warsaw, April 15-16, 2010. The modern building in the back is a shopping complex designed by Sir Norman Foster. Two days later, this plaza was the scene of the memorial ceremony for the 97 Polish leaders who had died in a tragic plane crash the week before. Notice the flag at half-staff.
The new web site has been in the works for quite some time. It's nice to finally see it alive!
*WARNING - Geek speak below*
A friend of mine recently said to me, "it's rare these days that I come across a Flash site that doesn't make me want to injure someone." I have to say that I agree with him and that's why the primary focus for the design of this new Gridplane site was on user experience.
With this site, you'll find a lot of features that you'd expect from an html site like back-button support, unique URLS, direct links and non-flash scrolling! The projects are tagged and organized by filters. Those tags/filters (Favorites, Culture, Brands, etc) will surely be evolving over time. We've added a video player to use on project pages and will be posting more videos over time.
You might ask "why not just make it in HTML" and my answer would be because innovation is what keeps me going. I've ben working with Flash for almost 10 years and I think it is just now beginning to live up to it's potential.
By the way, there is also a simple html version for those of you who are totally over Flash - and the 2 wide columns collapse to 1 column on an iPhone.
We're thrilled with the Content Management System that was built by Instrument. (you'll be hearing more about Interface CMS in the near future). This allows us to tie every bit of content together. So, you can combine contacts with clients with projects with tags, etc to create complex associations. We actually used the CMS to create the data models as well.
Instrument also built a super slick SEO layer behind the scenes so Google will index all the site's content and we can use analytics to track things.