information architecture

  • Very High Level Summary of UX

    UX has to do with following Usability processes moreso than using particular tools to produce results that will enhance usability. The most popular process is known as User Centered Design. This means defining who your users are, analyzing their processes by collecting data about the user. Once you collect user data, you can create an affinity. Often

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  • Thanksgiving 2011

    Spending time with my friends this year has really made me realize how fortunate I am. When there is so much chaos in the world, and in the details of people’s lives, it’s really great to take some time to reflect and have gratitude. I’m thankful for My wonderful son William, he teaches me so

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  • UXDiva’s Journey of a Lifetime – Pune, India Day 2

    I woke up nice and early on Sunday. I enjoyed catching up with my friends at home by checking Facebook, and pondered the view from outside my hotel room window. Pune seemed a little more dingy in the early morning light. When I went downstairs to the lobby there were clown cut-outs and balloons at

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  • UXDiva’s Journey of a Lifetime – Pune, India – Arrival

    We arrived in Pune at approximately 5 am. I guess this was a good time to get there, because the airport was practically empty, the only people outside were the drivers ready to pick people up, and there was no traffic. The airport was a lot more modern than what I was expecting. It was

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  • UXDiva’s Journey of a Lifetime – The Journey to India Begins

    Last month I had the opportunity to go to India for work to visit a development office in Pune. I immediately started to make arrangements to go to India. I would be traveling with a coworker who has family in India, so that eased some of the nervous feelings I may have had about going

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  • UX and the iPhone 3GS slowdown

    UXDiva has been dormant for the past several months due to the fact that I’ve been busy doing Human Centered Design for a huge enterprise application for Data Center Infrastructure Management. I’ve been busy traveling and doing customer visits, evangelizing UX and down in the nitty-gritty of generating Information Architecture, and wireframes. Since I’ve been traveling more, I’ve come to

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