Recently, I have been reading a few "green-coloured" O'Reily books. If you are familiar with the publisher, they colour-code the books they publish to indicate the book category. So a green-coloured book would often refer to some form of web technology.
I have been reading about Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which is now into its third edition. It has been updated to include Web 2.0 technology (actually, I'll just say that it includes Web 2.0 lingo) such as Tags.
The two parts of the book are interesting, and covers a lot of basic principles relating to information structure. The take-home that I can remember clearly is that the magic number is 7. When presenting information, e.g. menu links, try best to limit the number of links to 7. Interestingly Bio-IT World, a publication for IT in the Life Sciences, publishes only 7 news articles links per page.
The later sections aren't as interesting and covers mostly processes, methodologies and software tools. I'm skimming through these pages for now. I am seriously considering purchasing a copy (I borrowed this copy from the library) for reference. That's how impressed I am with this book!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.