Posts Tagged: Humber

The Five Hat Racks: Information Organization for the Web

The principle of focused navigation, one of the eight principles of information architecture, or more commonly, the five hat racks principle was developed by Richard S. Wurman in his book “Information Anxiety” and further developed in the sequel “Information Anxiety 2.”  This principle states that there are only five possible ways to organize information: Location,

Folksonomies: Strengths & Weaknesses

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index the total amount of data transferred over global mobile networks in 2010 was 237 petabytes per month, which has tripled over the past decade.  The same report goes on to speculate that this figure will climb to 6.3 exabytes by 2015, an increase of 92 percent.  This is