[Sigia-l] IA and Traditional Software

[Laura Norvig]

This is pretty obvious, but good IA for the built-in Help makes a 
software application much more usable.


At 11:54 AM -0700 8/2/02, Avi Rappoport wrote:
>At 1:39 PM -0400 8/2/02, Gent, Andrew wrote:
>>Hi Lyle,
>>
>>  >>Just wondering how folks think IA relates to software applications.
>
>Most of the software I worked on didn't have enough content to 
>require significant organization.  Some aspects of IA relate pretty 
>well, like labeling, categories and navigation.  User Experience 
>techniques were much more important for me.
>
>For what it's worth, I helped design bibliography software 
>(EndNote), a developer environment (Metrowerks CodeWarrior) and a 
>mail server and webserver on the Mac [don't laugh] (StarNine Mail & 
>WebSTAR). Don Norman was and is a great inspiration.
>
>Avi
>