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Comment on Beans: Spilt. I’m Giving A Talk At MidwestUX by mike christoff

mike christoff — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:51:09 +0000

you made it out without being hazed. The UI community are more rational when it comes to treating our neighbors up North. Thanks for your talk.
@mikemantx

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Tweets that mention The Umbrella of UX | Wildly Appropriate -- Topsy.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:53:15 +0000

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Comment on Logo Studies for The Understanding Group by dan

dan — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:20:56 +0000

Note that the typefaces used here are Helvetica Neue in its Light and Book and Bold Italic weights… and then a custom-warped glyph from Gotham Ultra Italic for the U in TUG

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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:18:47 +0000

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Comment on Updated Course Description – SI 658 Information Architecture by Nina

Nina — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:21:38 +0000

This course looks like a blast – it must be fun to teach!

Just watched your “What is Information Architecture” video, which echoed many of the points in your IxDA Lansing presentation a few weeks ago. I like how intricately related IA and architecture are (great Falling Waters reference).

Comment on No Such Thing As Information Architects: Responding To JJG 11 Months Later by xian

xian — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:53:23 +0000

I’m sorry the board didn’t collectively with one voice or individually as community leaders take up @jjg’s gauntlet. I can’t speak for anyone else, but for myself I am somewhat burnt out on this micropositioning when I think the larger questions are being ignored.

I am heartened by Dan’s enthusiastic championing of IA and I hope he take a role on the board and jaded four-year veterans such as myself roll off into emeritus status this coming fall.

I’ve never stopped being an information architect and I do information architecture every day, when my title has been interaction designer, web strategist, information architect, user experience designer, director, product designer, and so on.

The information layer interests me and I will always be drawn to work that involves understanding and explicating relationships and rules. I just personally can’t get worked up about what one founder type has to say about some of the memes a particular subculture has been working its way through.

Comment on There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett by xian

xian — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:25:36 +0000

Constantine, information architecture informs my work every day. Visualizing conceptual relationships, mapping ideas, helping people communicate, clarifying processes and relationships and rules on a layer beneath the specific tactical implementation of the interaction design and above the systems and data architecture of the specific software and hardware implementations – that’s how I do IA. I learned new things at the summit toward that from (among others, Wurman, Chastain, Gray, Roam, Wodtke, Resmini, Hinton, and Hess, among others). Most of them were new ways of looking at things or understanding them, not new ways to put sunburst patterns behind hero objects or new productivity techniques for Omnigraffle.

If it’s old and stale and tired and of no use to you and your experience of it has been that of a fad, then by all means leave it go.

Comment on There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett by Partial Recall

Partial Recall — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:49:21 +0000

Lay Your Weapons Down and Celebrate…

Introduction
I didn’t want to to wait too long before I got some of my initial thoughts written down about this year’s IA Summit. I could recap all of the sessions I attended, and I still may, but there are others that will likely do it be…

Comment on There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett by inkblurt · What am I?

inkblurt · What am I? — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:52:37 +0000

[...] has since been some vocal expression of discontent with Jesse’s [...]

Comment on There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett by Constantine

Constantine — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:13:31 +0000

It was sad to read the original memphis transcript, knowing JJG as passionate prophit of new discipline of IA in early 00-s. But truth is – he got desperate, he got tired, he got disillusioned – just like many of other people who saw IA as a wonderfull discipline of shaping the web structure.

BUT – the web is the structure. It does not need human architects .. Mindless swarms and nets grow by the lowest instincts and dumbest principles. No inteligent design, just evolution.

ps: IA has nothing new to offer since the polar book and JJG’s early articles, so its either a good time for it to pull something out or to die like numerous other fads.