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Title: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville ISBN: 0-596-00035-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Important Guidelines for Content Managers
Comment: I used this book to get started in the design of a coporate accounting portal in a fortune-500 company. Prior to reading, I was too focused on what my page would look like and found that afterwards, my site was much better geared to the customer-base it was intended to serve. This is an important read for web-page designers that still think of site development in terms of the number of web-pages.
Rating: 3
Summary: Unfortunately the second edition is worse than the first
Comment: I think the authors have fellen for too much of their own hype.
The first edition (which essentially forms the first half of the second edition) comes over as a book written by two shy and studious librarians, trying to apply their scholarly approach to the strange new world of the web. They are careful and tentative in their suggestions, and reserved in their presentation. The book is a bit at odds with most web design tomes, but interesting and thought-provoking, none the less.
The second edition reads like a desparate attempt to "puff up" a bunch of practices and approaches that they have been using over the last few years, but have forgotten why they chose to do them in the first place. It's assertive, strident and often superficial.
I'm not surprised their consultancy operation went out of business. The two shy librarians, seduced by the bright lights of the dot-com boom, have been left in the gutter with nothing but an expensive suit and a hangover.
The classic Greek Tragedy. Pride comes before the fall.
I got dispirited, and had to take a break. My solution was to re-read my copy of Krug's "Don't Make Me Think!", still my top recommendation of all the web design books I've read; concise, practical, enjoyable. That cheered me up :)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good all in one source for those not familiar with it.
Comment: The title of this book is a bit misleading, I thought it should be the caption at the top of the front cover, "Designing Large Scale Web Sites." While the authors do a good job at covering a large amount of material, I was disappointed that most of the material was a cross between design information and usability. A lot of the information is available in other places, but if you haven't done much reading on various design or usability aspects, this book does a good job of bringing together basic information from a number of different disciplines into one place.
The organization of the material was well thought out, topics were divided into logical sections, and built upon previous chapters when appropriate.
If you haven't done any work on a large scale project before, or aren't familiar with usability, or have some areas that you need to know more about, this is an excellent book to look at. Otherwise, you may find a large portion of this book covering familiar territory, and that much of what is talked about is already company policy or common sense.
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Title: Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke ISBN: 0735712506 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 16 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug ISBN: 0789723107 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 13 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett ISBN: 0735712026 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen ISBN: 156205810X Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong ISBN: 020172149X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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