Hypertext Architecture

Information Architecture	Hypertext

The Origins of the Web
	Vannevar Bush 1945 As We May Think Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 Thereafter, at any time, when one of these items is in view, the other can be instantly recalled merely by tapping a button below the corresponding code space. Moreover, when numerous items have been thus joined together to form a trail, they can be reviewed in turn, rapidly or slowly, by deflecting a lever like that used for turning the pages of a book. It is exactly as though the physical items had been gathered together from widely separated sources and bound together to form a new book. It is more than this, for any item can be joined into numerous trails Memex and Beyond Web Site

User requirements
	Wayfinding Recognising context Building communities Design guidelines Usability resources Usability weblog NCI Usability guide Usability engineering Evaluation methods toolbox Theory and methods of HCI

Conventional spaces
	The Web is rapidly developing diagrammatic conventions, genres, expert communities, fashions, and all the paraphernalia of any new design medium. What are the conventions of the following classes of website? Newspaper conventions The Guardian The Miami Herald The Washington Post MSN Product manufacturers Ford Motor Company IBM Casio Retailers Tesco Sears Amazon Arts organisations De Waag Ars Electronica N5M3 European Network for CyberART Circus Government Inland Revenue MAFF Cambridgeshire County Council open.gov.uk index Universities Cambridge MIT Yale Middlesex Warwick Anglia (map of British universities) Search engines and Portals Altavista Google Yahoo

Web site maps
	Dynamic Diagrams MerzScope Apple Computer A user-adaptable view of relations The Information Space

Information Architects
	NIH "evidence-based" usability guidelines Webmonkey tutorial The Information Architecture Guide Information Architecture reading list Internetworking Newsletter They talk the talk, do they walk the walk? A current favourite: Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
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