What Before How: Making a Home for Information Architecture
- 1. WHAT BEFORE HOW MAKING A HOME FOR INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE By Dan Klyn + Bob Royce from
- 3. WHAT I WAS PLANNING TO DO WHEN I GREW UP
- 4. SNEAK IN THROUGH THE LIBRARY
- 5. WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN DIGITAL JOYCE?
- 6. WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN ALL MUSIC?
- 7. I’VE RUN OUT OF SUPERLATIVES
- 8. HUSBAND TO ADRIENNE SINCE 1990 FATHER TO ROBERT SINCE 2000
- 15. THE LIBRARIANS V. THE COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
- 16. Focused on ‣ Organizing ‣ Labeling ‣ Navigation ‣ Structure ‣ Not Graphic Design ‣ Not Software Programming ‣ Not Usability
- 17. 2006
- 18. 2011
- 19. The Understanding Group is an Information Architecture practice dedicated to making things be good.
- 20. WHAT BEFORE HOW: MAKING A HOME FOR IA #WB4H Why would anybody start an IA consulting practice when there is no such thing as an information architect?
- 21. DUTCH UNCLES AT THE IA SUMMITS: 2009 + 2010
- 22. “ THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN INFORMATION ARCHITECT. IA DOES NOT EXIST AS A PROFESSION. AS AN AREA OF INTEREST AND INQUIRY? SURE. AS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF YOUR JOB? ABSOLUTELY. BUT IT'S NOT A PROFESSION. “ — Jesse James Garrett
- 23. “ I THINK YOU SHOULD REALLY HUDDLE TOGETHER AND REFORM YOURSELF INTO A KIND OF UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS. IF YOU TALK ABOUT UNDERSTANDING YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BE BUMPED “ OFF THE SHELF. — Richard Saul Wurman
- 24. SO WE DID
- 26. 1989 Design Quarterly, No. 145
- 27. A way of thinking. A whole way of life in which the aim is not to make something look good but to make it be good.
- 28. WHAT BEFORE HOW: MAKING A HOME FOR IA #WB4H What is TUG and what do we mean when we say what we say?
- 29. Ontology Particular meaning. Taxonomy Arrangement of the parts. Choreography Rules for interaction among the parts.
- 30. ARCHITECTURE IS NOT DESIGN
- 32. Donald Norman
- 33. We should change the name to the UX Summit
- 36. CODING BUSINESS SYSTEMS USER EXPERIENCE VISUAL DESIGN
- 37. CODING BUSINESS SYSTEMS INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE USER EXPERIENCE VISUAL DESIGN
- 39. Dan Klyn points away from bounded sets
- 40. Proposes meaning as the center of the set.
- 41. Andrew Hinton talks about pace layers of information environments
- 42. And Three Modes of Information Digital Sem antic Ecological
- 43. Business System s Information Architecture User Ex perience
- 44. CODING BUSINESS SYSTEMS INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE USER EXPERIENCE VISUAL DESIGN
- 45. CODING BUSINESS SYSTEMS Object Models Process Mapping Information Model INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Structural Design Personas Journeys USER EXPERIENCE User Research VISUAL DESIGN
- 47. WHAT BEFORE HOW: MAKING A HOME FOR IA #WB4H Who are the people buying the stuff TUG sells and using the stuff TUG makes?
- 49. User Experience Marketing Product Innovation IT Agencies
- 50. Strategy Planning Building Doing Iterate
- 54. Information Simple Complex Goals Goals Interaction
- 55. Information Complex Systems Simple Complex Goals Goals Simple Systems Interaction
- 58. MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO UNITE MEANING + STRUCTURE
- 60. BALANCE IS THE KEY
- 61. WHAT BEFORE HOW: MAKING A HOME FOR IA #WB4H WHERE Where is TUG heading and what’s next for TUG’s practice and for information architecture?
- 63. PUBLICATIONS
- 64. PUBLICATIONS
- 69. SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ARE LIKE… A THING
- 70. “ YOU’RE NOT GOING TO TALK IN TERMS OF WIREFRAMES AND DESIGN OF A PAGE, OR HAVE THE METAPHOR OF A BOOK IN YOUR HEAD. IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. VERY SOON: I’M TALKING ABOUT A “ COUPLE OF YEARS. — Richard Saul Wurman