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Ambient Findability

Attribution
Peter Morville
Publication Details
Book, O’Reilly, 2005
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) QA76.9.D26 M67 2005 AVAILABLE
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Description
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. The book’s central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. –Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity “Information that’s hard to find will remain information that’s hardly found–from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.” Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. Anyone interested in making information easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Morville, Peter
Subject
Contents
- 1. Lost and found
- 2. A brief history of wayfinding
- 3. Information interaction
- 4. Intertwingled
- 5. Push and pull
- 6. The sociosemantic Web
- 7. Inspired decisions
ISBN
- 0596007655
- 9780596007652
Open Library ID
- /b/OL7581127M