Information Architects

Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics

What makes Japanese design so special? Basically, it's a matter of simplicity; a particular notion of simplicity, different from what simplicity means in the West. So are things in general better designed in Japan? Well, actually, it's not that simple... The New York Times asked us to get them in ...

Internazionale: Look and Feel

Here are a few design explorations on the possible look and feel for Internazionale. They are based on the beautiful work that Mark Porter, creative director of the Guardian editorial did for the print edition. We'd like to post them without comment as we're curious to hear what you think. ...

Google, Yahoo, Bing: Beyond the Hype

The story is quite clear: Yahoo is going down. Google is going up, Bing is insignificant. It's becoming quite clear who the real winner of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal is. Compared to their competitors, Bing doesn't do that well on usability either. As for Yahoo!--the latest UI changes on Yahoo! (and the ...

Tell me again: Who Relaunched Krone.at?

I got an email the other day from a young entrepreneur that asked whether we send out press releases. The answer is twisted: So far I have refrained from sending out press releases. But that might change... Press Releases: Contra Press releases are not authentic. They're written in an obsolete sleazy PR ...

From Black to White: iA redesigns Krone.at

After covering a high percentage of newspaper sites in Switzerland and redoing DIE ZEIT, iA moved to the other very challenging side of the online news spectrum: With krone.at we updated one of the big players in the red top press industry. As of now, krone.at counts 124 Million page impressions, ...

Links in Print: Story of a Beautiful Failure

In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure. We put all eggs in one ...

Concept Internazionale

L’Internazionale is rightfully proud of its very dedicated readership. Out of 100'000 readers, 30'000 come to Ferrara each year to meet the editors. The facebook group of Internazionale boasts 23'000 fans, a huge number if you compare it to the groups of Newsweek with a circulation of over 3 Million ...

Zeit Online, Freshly Squeezed

iA has redesigned ZEIT ONLINE, the Internet edition of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. DIE ZEIT (German pronunciation: [diː tsait], literally The Times,) is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism. With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, ...

Trends we can Believe in: Webtrendmap.com

We've finally launched the interactive version of our popular poster. Webtrendmap.com turned out to not just be the base for our next year's poster, it is a new way to find high quality content. iA's newest product helps you finding the hottest links in the last 24 hours Unlike the common ...

Pronto Internazionale?

While everybody is chatting about the future of news, we're shaping it. Currently, we're working with the Italian magazine Internazionale, who is trying to figure out where to move with their website. As only an advanced process can result in advanced results, Internazionale agreed to open up the design process ...