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Peter Merholz - dConstruct 2007 Presentation Podcast on Experience Strategies
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http://2007.dconstruct.org/podcast/02-Peter-Merholz.mp3
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Here is a podcast of Peter Merholz's presentation at dConstruct 2007 (Tuesday, October 16, 2007)
Peter Merholz is President and a founding partner of Adaptive Path. He is an experienced information architect, writer, speaker, and leader in the field of user-experience design.
"Engage in a deep dive into the importance of experience. In this session Peter will cover the historical perspective; lay out the evolution of product categories; demonstrate the competitive advantage that experience provides; explain the importance of thinking about your products in a systems fashion; and cap it off with a discussion of experience strategies and how they can provide stars to sail your ship by."
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The Hidden History of Information Management
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-hidden-history
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Bob Goodman reviews a new book on information management called Glut: Master Information Through The Ages by Alex Wright in this essay at Boxes and Arrows.
"Information architects—and anyone curious about the roots of information management—will find much of interest in Glut’s thought-provoking tale. Given the stimulating and contrarian nature of Glut’s ideas, one only wishes Wright would occasionally return from the corridors of the time tunnel and bring his well-informed perspective back to our present age."
There is also an excerpt of Chapter 9 from the book available on the site.
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My Grandmother the Information Architect: The IA of Everyday Life
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http://www.iasummit.org/proceedings/2007/my_grandmother_the_information
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This is a Powerpoint presentation by Hallie Wilfert at the IA Summit 2007. Hallie works as an Information Architect at SRA International in Arlington, VA, a technology and strategic consulting firm. Before SRA she worked for 8 years at the Institute of Medicine, most recently as the Director of New Media managing their online communication strategy.
The description of the presentation is as follows:
"My presentation examines the information architecture of everyday life, using my grandmother, the quintessential “domestic engineer”, as a case study and example. Through participant observation, I will examine her core IA skills (content inventories, wireframes, and card sorting), illustrate them with photos and artifacts of her work, and compare her work to “traditional IA” best practices.
While seemingly tongue-in-cheek, my presentation will be valuable to anyone who wants to crawl out from the weeds and examine how information architecture is used everyday by regular people. I will talk about how home organization, as a metaphor for web site organization, can be used to describe IA to those who might not understand its value in a larger context."
You can view the file below or download it from the IA Summit website via the link.
The presentation was originally "discovered" at Rob Fay's Partial Recall blog.
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Communicating design: an astonishingly close look at what makes IA documentation work
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http://www.iasummit.org/proceedings/2007/communicating_design_an_astoni
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This is a presentation from the IA Summit 2007 by Dan Brown. Dan is a principal with EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consultancy in Washington, DC.
"Every document created by information architects contains many layers of information. Too few layers of information, and the ideas within lose context and meaning. Too many layers, and the important ideas become obscured. Choosing the right ideas to include can make or break a document--and the project. In this session, the author talks about several different IA documents, the kinds of information they contain, and strategies for selecting the right information for the right situations."
You can view the slideshow below or view it on the IA Summit website via the link. There is also an audio file download on the IA Summit website.
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