James Kalbach現就職於領先的法律與新聞資訊提供商LexisNexis，任人因工程師，為其基於Web的搜索應用開發界麵。他曾任Razorfish德國公司信息架構總監。他擁有Rutgers University的圖書情報學學位和音樂理論及作麯碩士學位。

他是Boxes and Arrows（關於用戶體驗的著名在綫期刊，http://www.boxesandarrows.com）的助理編輯。他還是Information Architecture Institute的顧問委員會委員和European Information Architecture會議(http://www.euroia.org)的籌委會委員。

工作之餘，音樂是他的主要消遣。他與妻子Nathalie和小貓Niles住在德國漢堡，是一支當地小型爵士樂隊的貝司手。他還是一個精釀啤酒迷，經常會以pivo的網名在著名的在綫啤酒社區Ratebeer.com(http://www.ratebeer.com)上發錶評分和文章。

Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. "Designing Web Navigation" demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology - it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, "Designing Web Navigation" offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design; paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior; demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility; helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design; thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation; explores "information scent" and "information shape"; explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts; covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications; and, includes an entire chapter on tagging. While "Designing Web Navigation" focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.