Monday, February 5, 2007
On Site Design, Chapter 3 WSG
Now that I've wasted time trying to put links into messages, here is what I found interesting in this chapter (in addition to the excellent web design advice!) Two lines contradict our glorious messengers of last week: "Ironically, associative organizational schemes are often the most impractical structure for Web sites because they are so hard for the user to understand and predict" (43). Also, "Even the best search engines are relatively stupid and have only the most primitive means of assessing the priority, relevance, and interrralations of the information resources you offer in you Web site" (69). In light of that YouTube clip, can we then teach the Machine (or even others) how to make the same connections that we make? I say NO! Will we be able to in the near future?
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I agree with those authors that the "associative organizational schemes are the most impractical structure for Web sites" for the reasons they cited, but I would like to be able to impose an associative organizational structure on my own hard drive, perhaps just overlaying the present structure. I don't think we'll be able to teach the machine to make the connections we make, but hopefully we can someday design software that will allow us to effortlessly make our own connections digitally in whatever form we wish.
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