Blog Archives
A Model for Understanding Information Architecture: Ontology, Taxonomy and Choreography
An excerpt from a workshop I gave at The Understanding Group in Ann Arbor on March 7, 2013.
Keynote for AIA Michigan Annual Meeting
Re-introducing: The Architecture of Information An idea that failed to become a Big Deal in the AIA in 1976, its roots in the workshop of Louis Kahn, and why it matters now more than ever. Video I captured from the … Continue reading
Lou Kahn: Architects Not Designers
As quoted in Brownlee and De Long, Louis I Kahn, 177. I think architects should be composers and not designers. They should be composers of elements. The elements are things that are entities in themselves”
Architecture ≠ Design
Architecture and design are not the same thing. It’s been my cause célèbre of late, perhaps to a fault. This differentiation and its impact on how we might go about doing information architecture work is part of a talk I’ve … Continue reading
User Experience Design and Information Architecture – Centered and Bounded Sets
The centered set approach is like gathering cats rather than herding cattle. The center is the pail of milk that draws the cats. This morning I finally checked Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence off of my reading list. I consumed … Continue reading
The Umbrella of UX
There was an interesting question posted to the IxDA mailing list yesterday: Can we say that Usability, User centered design, Information Architecture and interaction design fall under the umbrella of User experience design? I offered a perspective on Rohit’s question. … Continue reading
Logo Studies for The Understanding Group
Note, this post has moved to TUG’s blog: MakingThingsBe.Gd.
Repost: 2009 Conversation with Richard Saul Wurman
Recordings of my first telephone conversation with Richard Saul Wurman: Part One Part Two (Repost Coming Soon) Part Three Part Four
Giving A Talk at Lansing IxDA Chapter Kickoff
Update: Proud to announce that Michigan’s own Dan Klyn (@danklyn) will be our new guest speaker Sept 16. Don’t miss it! http://bit.ly/bZLJqGless than a minute ago via Tweetie for MacIxDA LansingIxDALansing