As promised in the previous post, here are the instructions on how to add specific search locations to your Help view.
To add new search locations to your Help view, press F1 to display the Help view, and click on the Search tab. Expand the Search Scope section, and click on Advanced Settings to display the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘work’
A view on ‘what is Information Architecture?’
Posted in information architecture, usability, tagged information architecture, usability, work on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, the short answer, for IA in IBM at least is this:
Information Architecture is the practice of organizing, structuring, and classifying information systems, including navigation, linking, and language systems, such that the information is easy to use, easy to find, and easy to understand.
Information architects are often compared to librarians, who catalogue and categorise large [...]
GUI elements and terminology
Posted in usability, work, writing, tagged documentation, eclipse, GUI, interfaces, terminology, tooling, usability, work, writing on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One thing I find that makes writing difficult is the confusing mass of terminology around GUI interface elements such as buttons, menus, pages, windows, tabs and so on. Many of the tools that I work with have standard elements that have standard names. For example in the Eclipse platform the main ones are workbench windows, perspectives, editors and [...]
Welcome
Posted in blogging, information architecture, usability, work, tagged blogging, information architecture, usability, work on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and welcome to my blog! This is one of several blogs that I have, but the aim with this one is to talk about interesting stuff that I do at work. I don’t consider myself to be deeply techie, hence the title of the blog, which I also use as the tag line for [...]
