Category technology

Search Suggestions

“You used to be expected to type for yourself. But today people have come to expect a reasonable amount of help at even this task. Our phones now help us form correctly-spelled words, our browsers fill in long addresses after we’ve typed only a few characters, and search engines recommend searching for “Humphrey Bogart” after [...]

Who Owns Information Architecture?

“Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) professionals have a partner in defining a metadata strategy: the Enterprise Architect. I think of the EA as the big brother showing up at a schoolyard fight just in time. IKM pros need them for their vision, their clout and their sign-off powers. But EAs need IKM pros too. Information [...]

Search Patterns

Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
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The Mobile Internet Report

“Material wealth creation / destruction should surpass earlier computing cycles. The mobile Internet cycle, the 5th cycle in 50 years, is just starting. Winners in each cycle often create more market capitalization than in the last. New winners emerge, some incumbents survive – or thrive – while many past winners falter.
The mobile Internet is ramping [...]

Sociable Design

Abstract and free chapter of Don Norman’s forthcoming book “Sociable Design”

How the Internet Enables Intimacy

Socialite: Social Media Aggregator

Social Isolation and New Technology

Social Isolation and New Technology from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project