RESOURCES

Information Architecture & Usability

Books

Information Architecture, Second Edition, by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville. O'Reilly & Associates, 2002.

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, by Christina Wodke. New Riders, 2002.

Information Architects, by Richard Saul Wurman. Watson-Guptill Publishing, 1997.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug. New Riders, 2000.

User-Centered Web Design, by John Cato. Addison-Wesley, 2001

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielsen. New Riders, 2000.

Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience, by Jennifer Fleming. O'Reilly & Associates, 1998.

Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, by Jeffrey Rubin. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity, by Alan Cooper and Paul Saffo. Sams, 1999.

Web Sites & E-Newsletters

User Interface Engineering
Research and consulting company of Jared Spool. Site offers a great collection of articles, reviews, white papers, and Webcasts. Subscribe to free monthly e-newsletter, UIEtips.

UseIt.com
Web site of Jakob Nielsen with a wealth of links to information, news, and reports on usability issues. Includes archive of Nielsen's weekly AlertBox column.

Boxes and Arrows
A peer-written journal dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of information architecture, information design, interaction design, interface design.

IASlash
News site for information architects. IASlash watches for articles relevent to IA and lists them with commentary.

IAWiki
A collaborative discussion space for the topic of Information Architecture. Anyone can contribute, and there is good information for people new to the field.

Organizations

Puget Sound Chapter for the Society of Technical Communicators
Mission of the non-profit organization is to support technical communicators. Tracts of interest pertaining to usability, information architecture, and content management are emerging.

Puget Sound SIGCHI Chapter
Organization serving the Puget Sound region's interface design, usability, and human factors research communities. Monthly meetings.

Upcoming Events

UIE Roadshow: The Secret Design Strategies of Highly Effective Web Sites
Jared Spool and Christine Perfetti will speak at the Seattle venue on May 19th. $295.