[Sigia-l] inviting, welcoming, open, approachable?

[Peter Morville]

If I had room for one more facet in my UX honeycomb [1], I'd fill it with
learnable :-)

[1]
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/images/honeycombbig.jpg


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
http://semanticstudios.com/
http://findability.org/

 


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Will Parker
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:40 PM
To: Eric Scheid
Cc: sigia l
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] inviting, welcoming, open, approachable?


On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:24 AM, Eric Scheid wrote:
>
> quoted from:
>
>     http://www.communication.org.au/dsblog/?p=30
>
>> 4. The term accessible covers what today's information architects 
>> refer to as 'findability'. But accessible has another implication, 
>> one of inviting people in, being welcoming, open, and approachable. I 
>> may be wrong, but I see no reference to these all-important 
>> characteristics in the information architecture toolbag.
>
> comments?

Haven't time at the mo' to check the link, but I've settled on the term
'learnability' as a vast simplification of 'a design that most users in the
intended audience will find easy to map to existing mental models of
something they already know how to do or interact with'.

- Will

Will Parker
wparker at ChannelingDesign.com

"The only people who value your specialist knowledge are the ones who
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