[Sigia-l] Navigation book recommendations (request)

[Louis Rosenfeld]

On 8/28/02 4:02 PM, "Margaret Hanley" <mairead at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I like Marcia Bates article
> 
> THE DESIGN OF BROWSING AND BERRYPICKING TECHNIQUES FOR THE
> ONLINE SEARCH INTERFACE
> 
> http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html
> 
> It talks about "navigating" through an information space,
> how people move through traditional online articles. Some
> of the recommendations are a bit dated like the library
> interface, but the principle of berrypicking is a one we
> can apply to navigating the web space.

Also by Bates, also a must-read, and much newer:  "After the Dot-Bomb:
Getting Web Information Retrieval Right this Time," which appeared in First
Monday in July:  
  http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/

I blogged Bates' article here:
  http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000100.html


Louis Rosenfeld
www.louisrosenfeld.com
information architecture consulting