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Christina Wodtke Boxes and arrows Book Conference Yahoo Asilomar www.aifia.org www.eleganthack.com www.Boxesandarows.com www.blueprintsfortheweb.com

Boxes and arrows

Book

Conference

Yahoo

Asilomar

www.aifia.org www.eleganthack.com www.Boxesandarows.com www.blueprintsfortheweb.com

Themes Things you learned from a past life Lessons from retail Lessons from waiting tables Lessons from daycare What would you do if you weren’t an IA? What do you love? What is the nature of your interest?

Things you learned from a past life

Lessons from retail

Lessons from waiting tables

Lessons from daycare

What would you do if you weren’t an IA?

What do you love?

What is the nature of your interest?

Who are we What is IA? AIfIA definition The structural design of shared information environments. The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability. An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

What is IA?

AIfIA definition

The structural design of shared information environments.

The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability.

An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

Who are we Community of practice Something was broken We stepped up to fix it Too much data, too little meaning

Community of practice

Something was broken

We stepped up to fix it

Too much data, too little meaning

Data, Information, Knowledge We design for movement From data To information To Knowledge

We design for movement

Complete solutions We design for Usability Findability Understandability Or do we? How complete is this? Are we good at it yet?

We design for

Usability

Findability

Understandability

Or do we? How complete is this? Are we good at it yet?

Bad Mantras That’s me That’s not me I don’t do that Nothing to do with me That’s not relevant We’ve locked down too early

That’s me

That’s not me

I don’t do that

Nothing to do with me

That’s not relevant

We’ve locked down too early

My Obsessions Psychology Marketing Usability Library sciences Sociobiology Existentialism Winemaking Architecture Retail Information Design OO programming Poetry Stage Magic Ethnography

Psychology

Marketing

Usability

Library sciences

Sociobiology

Existentialism

Winemaking

Architecture

Retail

Information Design

OO programming

Poetry

Stage Magic

Ethnography

Bad model Why the separation? Little IA Big IA

Why the separation?

Better model Are they closer? Little IA Big IA

Are they closer?

Best model?? A new shape Little IA Big IA

A new shape

Best model?? Generalists, specialist, shared knowledge base Taxonomist Ontologist Indexer Content strategist Interaction designer? IA – classification, interaction design, interface/information design, and? Strategy? Graphic Design? Html/css? Usability?

Generalists, specialist, shared knowledge base

Rebirth Calling for the return of the renaissance (wo)man Learn fundamentals Choose a place to go deep Stay curious

Calling for the return of the renaissance (wo)man

Learn fundamentals

Choose a place to go deep

Stay curious

Rebirth Some possibilities: Travel Get engaged Learn to program Read poetry, fiction, science Eat, drink, walk, live Keep your eyes open

Some possibilities:

Travel

Get engaged

Learn to program

Read poetry, fiction, science

Eat, drink, walk, live

Keep your eyes open

There is no other There are only people who know stuff you don’t... yet. What will you do to change that?

There are only people who know stuff you don’t... yet.

What will you do to change that?

Long bets 10 years from now?

Long bets IA standardized

Long bets Many many well-trained generalists, few specialists

Long bets Fewer pioneers, more educated for practice

Long bets An international practice

Long bets Media goes from web to digital– but stays in digital

Long bets What are yours?

Why I am Not a Painter Frank O'Hara I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting. I drop in "Sit down and have a drink" he says. I drink; we drink. I look up. "You have SARDINES in it." "Yes, it needed something there." "Oh." I go and the days go by and I drop in again. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by. I drop in. The painting is finished. "Where's SARDINES?" All that's left is just letters, "It was too much," Mike says. But me? One day I am thinking of a color; orange. I write a line about orange. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines. Then another page. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. Days go by. It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.

Why I am Not a Painter

Frank O'Hara

I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting. I drop in "Sit down and have a drink" he says. I drink; we drink. I look up. "You have SARDINES in it." "Yes, it needed something there." "Oh." I go and the days go by and I drop in again. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by. I drop in. The painting is finished. "Where's SARDINES?" All that's left is just letters, "It was too much," Mike says. But me?

One day I am thinking of a color; orange. I write a line about orange. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines. Then another page. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. Days go by. It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.