What is Information Wayfinding? Tyler sums it up as ‘a syntheses of ideas both from information interaction — including berry picking, information foraging, sense making — and from wayfinding, the process for spatial problem solving.’
A bit more about Tylers session:
We perceive the world, both physical and digital, in spatial terms. Yet most of today's web experiences are based on a book metaphor — the table of contents transferred to the navigation menu, the index to the search index, the page to the web page.
This vestige of the past is holding us back. To create information environments that are truly coherent, we must view them not as books full of pages, but as spaces to navigate and explore—much like finding our way through a city or a museum.
In this talk, we’ll consider the elements of the information environment: districts, layers, and nodes. We’ll investigate three different wayfinding strategies: locate, explore, and meander. And we’ll outline a set of design principles — such as using structured districts, flexible layers, positional cues, survey knowledge, clear paths, and coherent interaction — for building experiences that facilitate information wayfinding.
Come join us in thinking about the future of interacting with information. Sign up and get more information here:
http://softwareast.ning.com/events/software-east-ux-evening-at-red-gate-software
The evening starts with registration between 1800 and 1830 and refreshments will be provided after the session with our grateful thanks to our Sponsors Red Gate http://www.red-gate.com/
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