Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Fred Leise

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Fred is User Experience Manager-Taxonomy for Sears Holdings Corporation. He previously served as an IA consultant specializing in the areas of taxonomy and controlled vocabulary design, user experience design, and website and back-of-book indexing.

He trained as an information architect at Argus Associates and has worked with such clients as Harpo, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, LookSmart.com, Hewlett-Packard and PeopleSoft, Inc.

Stories written by Fred Leise

• Improving Usability with a Website Index [5 comments]
• All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies [18 comments]
• What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? [17 comments]
• Creating a Controlled Vocabulary [3 comments]
• Synonym Rings and Authority Files [2 comments]
• Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus [6 comments]
• Content Analysis Heuristics [11 comments]

Comments made by Fred Leise

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