Information Architecture
The structural and semantic design of information systems.
AIfIA - professional association
Bloug - blog by Louis Rosenfeld
Boxes & Arrows - journal
Elegant Hack - blog by Christina Wodtke
IA/ - news
InfoDesign - news by Peter Bogaards
IA Library - site by AIfIA
Noise Between Stations - blog by Victor Lombardi
Semantics - column by Peter Morville
Interaction Design
Defining the form of products with respect to behavior and use.
AskTog - articles by Bruce Tognazzini
Information Interaction Design - by Nathan Shedroff
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
UIWeb - by Scott Berkun
Knowledge Management
You can't find what's hidden in someone's head.
How Do People Organize Their Desks - by Thomas Malone
The Big Heap of Laundry Theory - by Ed Vielmetti
Tackling Messy Knowledge - by IBM Business Consulting
Content Management
Publishing tools and editorial processes.
CMS Watch - news and analysis from Tony Byrne
Content Management Bible - book by Bob Boiko
CMS Wiki - wiki by Bob Doyle
Search Engine Optimization
It's all about words, metadata, links, and web standards.
Search Engine Visibility - book by Shari Thurow
Search Engine Optimization Tips - from Microsoft
Introduction to Search Engine Optimization - by Danny Sullivan
Designing for Search Engines and Stars - by Shirley Kaiser
Website Findability - book by Michael Heraghty
Search Engine Optimization - article by Bruce Clay
User Experience
Design philosophy that encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with a company, its services, and its products.
UXblog - blog by Challis Hodge
The Elements of User Experience - by Jesse James Garrett
Why We Buy
- by Paco Underhill
User Experience Design - article by Peter Morville
Peterme.com - blog by Peter Merholz
Useit.com - column by Jakob Nielsen
Jeffrey Veen - blog
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
Semantic Web - by W3C
The Semantic Web: An Introduction - by Sean Palmer
The Semantic Web - article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview - by Clay Shirky
The Semantic Argument Web - article by David Weinberger
Web Standards
Standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the long-term viability of sites.
The Web Standards Project - grassroots coalition
W3C - membership organization
Zeldman.com - by Jeffrey Zeldman
Information Retrieval Standards
Metadata and controlled vocabulary standards and guidelines.
TAO of Topic Maps - article by Steve Pepper
Topic Maps vs. Thesauri - article by Lars Marius Garshol
Topicmap.com - reference site
Z39.19 Thesaurus Standard - guidelines from NISO
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - from OCLC
Resource Description Framework (RDF) - from the W3C
Writing for Findability
Good content sucks.
Writing for Search Engines - by Chris Sherman
Writing for the Web - by Website Tips
Web Writing - by Gerry McGovern
SEO Copywriting - by SuccessWorks
Writing the Web - by Gene Smith
"As a consequence of pervasive computing, interaction design is poised to become one of the main liberal arts of the twenty-first century."
- Malcolm McCullough in Digital Ground
"One of the most important components of a successful search engine marketing campaign is the link component, also referred to as site-architecture. Site architecture refers to a web site's navigation scheme, individual page layout, and how directories are set up on your web server."
- Shari Thurow in Search Engine Visibility
