Goodbye, Confusion
In the year that How to Make Sense of Any Mess has been on sale, I’ve been up to a lot of exciting things.
What we need is a barn raising.
The IAI needs help, its library is lacking. We need to come together as a community to help bring this resource to its fullest potential.
So you want to be an information architect?
There is no “entry-level” into Information Architect. It just takes perseverance and passion.
Everything is Information Over Time.
Asking the question: Does the way we architect information affect happiness?
This is the work.
The work isn’t just about the product, it’s also the process. The work you do, the questions you answer, and the problems you solve.
Prioritization is deciding.
We never know what life will throw at us, so making key decisions up-front about how you will prioritize can save time down the road.
What’s Hard?
We all have to ask hard questions about our work – being a teacher is no exception.
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.
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.
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!