Victor is the director of Smart Experience, an independent school based in New York City offering classes on state-of-the-art topics to working professionals in the Internet, mobile, and software industries. Victor is also a product development consultant and a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute, a leading art and design school in the United States. - Read more

John S. Rhodes is a usability practitioner. He is a consultant, teacher, student, and writer. He has broad interests in areas such as psychology, interface design, usability, artificial intelligence, findability, web marketing, and strategic management. John operates the WebWord Blog, providing people with intelligent information about usability, human factors, web site design, information architecture, content development, and a whole lot more. - Read more

iaslash is a news site for information architects. Regardless of your field, if you are interested in information organization, usability, user testing, user interface design, and other areas related to the access and use of information in information-use environments, you may find some news and resources of interest here. - Read more

The xBlog is a weblog that features design and visual thinking linking. xBlog is widely respected as a definitive resource for designers, visual storytellers and information architects. You'll find links to sites discussing visual thinking, web design, art, creativity, information architecture and design, graphic design, symbols, typography, photography, information graphics, illustration, interface design, usability, language and more. xBlog has been published continually since 1999. - Read more

A tremendous resource for IAs. writes: "This is everything I've gleaned from the vast field of information we call the web. Not only all the IA, ID and any other "I" you can think of, but also odd articles, random thoughts, and so on and so on and so on...." (funny about that four-dot ellipsis though). - Read more

Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz. - Read more

Bloug is Lou's blog; B*lou*g, get it? And what's a blog? It's short for "web log," and is simply a place on the Web for an individual (usually) to enter postings about whatever that blog is about. This one's about information architecture and anything else I want to discuss. The Blogger site has a much better definition of blog. - Read more

Alex Wright is a writer and information architect who lives and works in New York City. His first book, Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on our information age and its historical roots." - Read more

Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. The magazine consists primarily of work contributed by web authors, as well as by others who occasionally delve into the web realm. We put emphasis on and provide recognition for contributed work. The Magazine is recognized by nearly all of the major web design agencies in the industry. - Read more

LucDesk is a personal (web) log focusing on web design, user experience, creative use of technology, and other topics of interest, including security, digital art, photography, illustration, and more. LucDesk has been published continually since October 2000. - Read more

Another good collection of information for IAs, tech writers, etc. - Read more

Interaction by Design is a user experience and digital product development consultancy led by George Olsen. For more than a decade, Olsen has done effective, award-winning work for a variety of companies from internet giants like Yahoo! to Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, Hollywood studios and everything in between. - Read more

Widely credited for popularizing "customer experience" online, Mark Hurst has worked since the birth of the Web to make Internet technology easier to use. In 2002, Hurst was named "one of the 1,000 most creative individuals in the U.S." in Richard Saul Wurman's book 1,000. InfoWorld magazine named Hurst Netrepreneur of the Year in 1999. - Read more

This is a place for things I find interesting or have to say related to usability, web design, information architecture and user experience practices. I sometimes also just ramble about other stuff as well... - Read more

Five years on, IA may still be an unfamiliar term for many, but it is a booming field bustling with conferences, books and rather desperate recruitment consultants struggling to fill a myriad of vacancies. - Read more