How I made sense of my mess
IA is so much more than web navigation – information is everywhere! I just had to figure out how to talk about it.
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EuroIA 2014 Keynote
The following was delivered as the closing plenary address at the European Information Architecture Summit in Brussels, Belgium on September 27, 2014. — I was asked here today to reflect on…
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Selling Information Architecture
We shouldn’t have to sell IA, but we need people to understand its importance and the importance of it being done correctly.
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Search is the front door to UX
If the internet is a place and Search has become the way in. UX and Search Pros need to work together to make it the internet the best place. This talk connects the lessons of UX with the promise of SEO and SEM.
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Making Sense of Place
Everything that we work on will affect a larger ecosystem. This talk introduces a hierarchical taxonomy for understanding the concept of place for the purposes of placemaking.
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Lessons from an Ontology Nerd
Meaning can get complicated at the intersection of humans and technology. This talk is a simple introduction to ‘ontology’ – a fundamental concept in the pursuit of meaning.
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How I teach IA to design students
Information architecture tends to be a primary tool for many design students, yet many don’t know the term IA. In this talk I explore the challenge and opportunity of teaching IA to design students.
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Information Architecture for Products
Your product has to make sense to others. Information architecture is all about ensuring things make sense. This talk relates the basic concepts of information architecture practice to the work of product management and product design.
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The Making of the IA Summit 2014
As a committee chair for the 2014 IA Summit, I decided to give the conference a 15-year birthday present. A bunch of data about it’s growth!
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Permission Granted
I’ve been practicing as an IA for ten years. A whole decade! Here’s the story of my time in the IA world.