A Brief History of Information Architecture
Information architects are inveterate systems thinkers. In the Web’s early days, we were the folks who focused less on pages than on the relationships between pages. Today, we continue to design...
View ArticleBuilding a Sense of Place across Channels
This is the subject of the workshop Pervasive Information Architectures: Building a Sense of Place across Channels Andrea will take at EuroIA 2012, Sept 25 in beautiful Rome, Italy. The way we make...
View ArticleFrom Product to Ecosystem: User Experience as a Flow and Narrative
Today every artifact (product, building, place etc.) is more and more part of an ecosystem. A lot of tasks we perform every day, to be made, requires in fact a transit across multiple devices and...
View ArticleTranslations of the book manifesto
Our Manifesto of Pervasive Information Architecture synthesizing the main ideas underlying the book is now available also in other languages than English. French, by Jean-Michel Salaun; Italian, by...
View ArticleHow to design interfaces for choice: Hick-Hyman law and classification
In a market dominated by the long tail model (Anderson), with an increasing variety of products and information, we have constantly to choose among a large number of options, not only in the web but...
View ArticleThe Architecture of Information: Information Architecture in the post-web age
In the epistemological shift from postmodernism to pseudo-modernism, technological, economic, social, and cultural elements of change have thoroughly transformed the scenario in which information...
View ArticleEmbracing ambiguity: Ambiguity as an emerging design pattern
The systems that comprise our increasingly connected physical environments are, for the moment, often broader than we can understand fluidly. Embracing ambiguity – embracing the possibility of not...
View ArticleDownload Chapter 3 Heuristics
Ubiquitous computing and complexity are creating a significant shift from product to experience and changing user experience design into the shaping of a process. As information is a core layer,...
View ArticleFrom Peter Morville’s Foreword
We’re creating multichannel, cross-platform, transmedia, physicodigital user experiences that tear down the walls between categories. We can call it ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Objects, Web...
View ArticleInformation is everywhere
Information is going everywhere, bleeding out of we thought was cyberspace and back into the real world: increasingly, many tasks we perform every day not only constantly require us to move between...
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