Magic Ink (via Jason Kottke) is an essay by Bret Victor on information design. The essay contains some interesting graphics, including a redesign of Amazon’s search result display (see: before and after).

On a related note, the newest edition of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (IAWWW) just dropped in through the mailbox. The foreword is by none other than usability guru Jakob Nielsen. Jakob’s legendary site, Useit.com, receives far too little attention in the Web 2.0 world.

IAWWW has more than doubled in size since its groundbreaking first edition and the newest version is very up to date on the newest trends. Highly recommended.

While we’re on the theme of information design, the newest edition of A List Apart has an interesting article called Contrast and Meaning which reminds me of a book I once got hold of after seeing that Jason Fried of 37signals recommended it: Designing Visual Interfaces.

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