Alex around the World

Quoted from Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morvile’s book entitled “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (O’Reilly, 2nd edition, 2002):

[...]be aware of the challenges of organizing information on the Web. Language is ambiguous, content is heterogeneous, people have different perspectives, and politics can rearits ugly head.

(Chapter 5: Organization Systems, p. 74)

Of all these challenges, politics is certainly the most complex and exhausting one…

By looking at the error message that was generated by Amazon when I was updating my contact info, I had the feeling that the website did not like the name of my country.

In fact, this is an example of the details you need to pay attention to when you are managing a multilingual website, especially at the level of interaction design.

Languages are always full of surprises …

Read Peter Merholz’s presentation on User-centric Web Design in an article published on FTPOnline..

More about Peter:

• http://www.peterme.com/
• http://www.adaptivepath.com/aboutus/peterme.php

Hahaha! Love Scott Berkun’s post on weird acronyms for software development approaches!

And you thought development was as easy as finding a methodology and applying it?