Fred Leise, Author at Boxes and Arrows

Author: Fred Leise

Fred is a taxonomy design consultant and back-of-book indexer, with experience in information architecture and user experience research. He serves as senior taxonomist for K Street Partners. He previous served as manager of the taxonomy team for the Online Business Unit of Sears Holdings Corporation. He is an indexing instructor for the University of California, Berkeley Online Extension Division and regularly presents sessions and workshops on taxonomy design and indexing. He trained as an information architect at Argus Associates and has worked with such clients as Salesforce, IGT (international gaming company), Harpo, Inc., Disney, Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, LookSmart.com, and Hewlett-Packard.

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All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies

Posted by Fred Leise

Information architects are fascinated with faceted classification and its application to information architecture problems. Our three authors present a series of in-depth articles covering faceted classification and controlled vocabularies and their practical application.

July 15, 2002 Interfaces

Improving Usability with a Website Index

Posted by Fred Leise

Indexes are important information-finding tools that can enhance usability. Site indexes provide direct, easily scannable links to meaningful, yet highly granular, chunks of content. But there’s more to them than people often assume.