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The document discusses the history and importance of information architecture (IA). It notes that IA was initially an informal practice before becoming a recognized field. However, IA is now more crucial than ever to organize the massive amounts of digital information and data. The document warns that algorithms and search tools are not enough on their own. Effective IA requires considering how organization and classification can impact different groups, employing user-centered design, and acknowledging that IA decisions are political in nature. The overall message is that IA practitioners must work to make information structures meaningful, inclusive and support deeper understanding.
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- 2. We are in Crisis. What is an appropriate response? Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm http://sfzc.org/we-are-in-crises-what-is-an- appropriate-response
- 4. Trigger Warning Discussion of race, gender, strong language
- 8. Once upon a time there was a girl in San Francisco who painted and waited tables…
- 11. I was hired to manage a catalog. I became an IA without knowing.
- 13. There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits and bytes, coming in an unorganized, uncontrolled, incoherent cacophony of foam. ~Richard Saul Wurman in Information Architects
- 14. There is a new breed of graphic designers, exhibition designers, illustrators and photographers, whose passion it is to make the complex clear…. ~Richard Saul Wurman in Information Architects
- 15. We started an institute because believed IA was a “refuge” from the tsunami
- 16. DTDT Organization of information for • Retrieval • Understanding • Use
- 19. IA was so forgotten, a taxonomy talk at Interactions was not seen as IA.
- 21. EXPLORE DAVE GRAY'S 15149 PHOTOS ON FLICKR!
- 23. RESPOND TO YOUR 94 FRIEND REQUESTS
- 24. 140 RECEIVED INVITATIONS 2,805 - YOUR CONNECTIONS
- 30. Algorithms are rulesets designed by people People make mistakes. People can fix mistakes.
- 31. “We don’t need IA” Because search
- 33. Search fails us, when we look for our most precious processions: our memories. Where are our photos?
- 37. Compartment T
- 38. Levi Mousaw
- 43. I started Women Talk Design to prove Women deserved to be on the stage of experts.
- 45. But when I raised money for interns to research, I found it was more complicated.
- 48. IA is not enough alone. Interaction design is not enough, alone. Online is nto enough, alone. Offline is not enough, alone. We need complete solutions.
- 49. Our Job To make it be good
- 50. 1. Meaningful and inclusive classification
- 52. Trigger Warnings
- 55. From my work on compassionate teams
- 58. 3. Interaction Design and Information Architecture for richer understanding
- 59. Watch: The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
- 60. 4. Tell your own stories When we are vulnerable, and honest and real, people listen.
- 61. There is always an Information Architecture Who is designing it?
- 62. Creating Information Architecture is a political act. Whose politics?
- 63. Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb: Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
- 64. Don’t boil the ocean.
- 65. Small things • Learn Information Architecture (it matters more than ever) • Support journalism. Pay for it. • Question categories. Our mental models aren’t always right. • Learn to draw ideas. You’ll think better. • Be kind every day. Even when it’s hard.