[Sigia-l] [Iai-Members] Architecture for the Information Age

[Peter Morville]

Just to clarify, since my short, snarky remarks have been getting me in
trouble today:

I've long been a proponent for accessibility as a critical component of the
user experience. I'm just not sure it's useful to criticize  a relatively
superficial element (the text describing the book-in-progress, which I think
is actually what Bernice meant when she said interview excerpts) without
engaging with the actual substance within the slides and interview (which
are not rendered as black text on a gray background).


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

 


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Well, *I* could read it. Sorry. I couldn't resist. I think I need a
vacation.


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

 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:iai-members-bounces at lists.iainstitute.org] On Behalf Of Bernice
Glenn
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:46 PM
To: Peter Morville
Cc: 'IAI Members'; sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Iai-Members] Architecture for the Information Age

Hi Peter,
If you can't read it, you have no substance.
Bernice


Bernice Glenn
Content Strategist . Information Architect . e-Learning
btglenn at earthlink.net 310-396-7409 http://home.earthlink.net/~btglenn/




Peter Morville wrote:
> I'd agree that readability is important, just as it's important to 
> avoid putting a comma after a URL in an email message, to avoid 
> compromising clickability. But, hopefully we will all avoid focusing 
> on surface so much that we forget about substance.
>
>
> Peter Morville
> President, Semantic Studios
> http://semanticstudios.com/
> http://findability.org/
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernice Glenn [mailto:btglenn at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:41 PM
> To: Peter Morville
> Cc: 'IAI Members'; sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Iai-Members] Architecture for the Information Age
>
> It is indeed unfortunate that when you go to 
> http://nowthatiseeit.com/,a nicely designed site, the interview 
> excerpts are in black type on a very dark gray background -- utterly 
> unreadable.... Now I See it in this case is Now I don't.
> Add this to the discussion on Web Aesthetics. How important is 
> readability as part of the aesthetic?
>
>
> Bernice Glenn
> Content Strategist . Information Architect . e-Learning 
> btglenn at earthlink.net 310-396-7409 http://home.earthlink.net/~btglenn/
>
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>
>
> Peter Morville wrote:
>   
>> Yesterday, Dan Klyn gave a talk called Now That I See It. I wish I'd 
>> been there. It's worth reviewing both the slides (slideshare) and the 
>> notes (pdf)...
>>
>> http://nowthatiseeit.com/
>>
>> As an extra bonus, Dan has posted a short excerpt from his interview 
>> with Richard Saul Wurman...
>>
>> http://danklyn.com/blog/?p=397
>>
>> I found it surprisingly refreshing and inspiring. Cheers!
>>  
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>> Peter Morville
>> President, Semantic Studios
>> http://semanticstudios.com/
>> http://findability.org/
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