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Title: Scattered Blast of Thoughts on Designing with Information


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Scattered Blast of Thoughts on Designing with
Information
  • Peter Merholz
  • Work Epinions.com
  • Personal peterme.com
  • Email peterme_at_peterme.com

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Blast OneFour Methods of Designing with
Information
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1. Data-Centered Design
Four Methods
  • Let the data speak
  • Tufte-esque design

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2. Data Centered Design
Four Methods
Taken from http//www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/K
elvin/Napoleon/map.html
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2. Editorial Design
Four Methods
  • Lead people through a process
  • Get them to a level of understanding

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2. Editorial Design
Four Methods
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3. Information Space Design
Four Methods
  • Supports search and retrieval
  • Creates an environment to wander, explore
  • Requires an understanding of how people
    understand data
  • Supports browsing

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4. User-Centered Design
Four Methods
  • Focus on users tasks, goals
  • Used for creating tools, applications
  • Productivity

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Blast TwoClassification Schemes
  • What I want to get out of this conference

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Overcome the tyranny of hierarchy
Classification Schemes
  • Megalithic top-down classification
  • As taxonomy expands, becomes unwieldy to traverse
  • Different people classify the world differently
  • Top-down This is how things are.

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Is there a bottom-up solution?
Classification Schemes
  • Basic-level categories most immediately
    understandable to human perception
  • Assign attributes (metadata) and use that to
    create relationships
  • Allow people to personalize the information so
    its relevant to them

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Blast ThreeA model for development
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