Nick Finck

What is Information? Feb 5th, 2010

Following with this weeks theme of videos on parade, here is a great video on information from Maya Research.  It seems we often forget that information isn’t diagrams or tables of data on a page, its not actually something we can see or point to. "We often confuse information with the form that it takes." Context is also critical here too.  This has a throwback to the old adage of "its not the medium, its the message." (via Kristina Halvorson)

Explain Information Architecture Feb 4th, 2010

While I am on a roll with showing off videos, here are a few select videos from the Explain IA Contest put on by the IA Institute.  The contest is an open invitation for you to explain information architecture.  You can explain it in 140 characters or less, you can use video, pictures, audio or whatever you like.  This is your chance to explain what it is, why is it important, what it means to you? Anyone can enter, but only IA Institute members can vote for the winners.  You can see more entries and learn about the contest by visiting their Flickr group.

The Right Way to Wireframe videos Feb 4th, 2010

Russ Unger, Todd Zaki Warfel, and Will Evans have posted three videos of their wireframing process which will be covered in their Interaction 10 workshop, The Right Way to Wireframe.  Fred Beecher will be posting his video soon as well. 

Russ says part of the inspiration came from my video on Creating Wireframes but I also feel it is strongly linked to my presentation on The Life Cycle of a Wireframe.  They will also be giving the talk at SXSW Interactive as well. So without further delay, here are the videos: