Recommended Links
From the most current thinking on information architecture to essential repositories of Web and usability standards, here are links to resources that we find useful, interesting, and fun.
Information Architecture
ACM SIGCHI — a forum for people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use
 http://www.sigchi.org/
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
 http://www.asis.org/
Boxes and Arrows — a peer-written journal discussing the task of bringing information architecture and design to the digital landscape
 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
Archives of CHI-WEB — archives of the human factors mailing list
 http://listserv.acm.org/archives/chi-web.html
IAnything Goes — articles on information architecture in the Web development process by Jeff Lash
 http://www.digital-web.com/types/ianything_goes/
Information Architecture Glossary
 http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/iaglossary.html
The Information Architecture Institute — a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture
 http://iainstitute.org/
The IA Wiki — a collaborative discussion space on the topic of information architecture
 http://www.iawiki.net/IAwiki
SIGIA-L Mail Archives — archives of the information architecture mailing list
 http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/index.php
Information Architecture Blogs
Bloug — Lou Rosenfield's blog. "B*lou*g, get it?"
 http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/
Fieldnotes — Tanya Rabourn's "pointers to stuff I find interesting"
 http://www.pixelcharmer.com/fieldnotes/
InfoDesign — news about topics such as information architecture, information design, visual design, user experience and more
 http://www.informationdesign.org/
Usability
AskTog — articles on interface design by Bruce Tognazzini of the Nielsen Norman Group
 http://www.asktog.com/menus/designMenu.html
Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines
 http://usability.gov/guidelines/
The Usability Professionals' Association
 http://www.upassoc.org/
Usable Web — Web usability links
 http://www.usableweb.com/
The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Usability Blogs
Good Experience Blog
 http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/
Web Development
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
 http://www.w3.org/
Eric Meyer's CSS Page
 http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/
Interesting Stuff
Classic IA Tools — in easy-to-read comic book form
 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/images/042103_willis/dswilliscom_classictools.pdf (PDF, 592K)
The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation
 http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
The Glass Engine — showcasing the works of Philip Glass
 http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine/
The Way Back Machine
 http://www.archive.org/
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