This document discusses navigation and sense-making across different channels. It argues that when we say "navigate" we really mean to understand. It explores how people reconnect fragments of information into meaningful patterns, and how quests connect maps to personal experiences. Navigation is said to choreograph the user experience across channels, and we build sense by weaving places into a cohesive narrative through navigation. The language used for this sense-making process is information architecture.

1. ANDREA RESMINI
GROUNDHOGS
in THE SOURCE CODE
navigation as cross-channel sense-making
IASUMMIT 2012

2. WE SAY NAVIGATE
WE REALLY MEAN
UNDERSTAND

5. KEVIN LYNCH, SKETCHES
MNSU.EDU

6. KEVIN LYNCH, SKETCHES
MNSU.EDU

7. KEVIN LYNCH, SKETCHES
MNSU.EDU

10. DISTINCTIONS WERE MADE
AMONG THE DIFFERENT
PHYSICAL PARTS OF THE CITY
THESE PARTS WERE
ORGANIZED IN A PERSONALLY
MEANINGFUL MESH

11. PEOPLE WERE RECONNECTING
PERCEIVED FRAGMENTS IN
MEANINGFUL PATTERNS

12. THE ODYSSEY, 700 BC

16. MONKEY ISLAND, 1990

20. SUCKER PUNCH, 2011

24. THE ODYSSEY, 700 BC

25. MONKEY ISLAND, 1990

26. QUESTS CONNECT MAPS
WITH PERSONAL SPACE

27. MP & THE HOLY GRAIL, 1975

28. QUESTS ARE A MIDDLE GROUND
BETWEEN NARRATIVE AND
ACTIONABILITY

29. DRACULA, 1897

30. KHOONI DRACULA, 1992

31. BRAM STOKER, 1906
BRITANNICA.COM

32. MONOLOGIC
POLYLOGIC
DIALOGIC

33. DICTATION
CYLINDERS

34. SHORTHAND

35. SHIPS' LOGS

36. DIARY
ENTRIES

37. NEWSPAPERS CLIPPINGS
GRUNGERABBIT.COM

38. TYPEWRITTEN TEXT

39. PHASE #1
DRACULASCASTLE.EU

40. PHASE #2
ASSOMMOIR.WORDPRESS.COM
DRACULASCASTLE.EU

41. PHASE #3
DRACULA3d

42. PHASE #4

43.
1 2
3 4

44. NOW.
WAIT A SEC THERE.

49. THE HOBBIT, 2012

50. “PLACE IS A WAY TO
UNDERSTAND THE WORLD”
YI FU TUAN

51. GROUNDHOG DAY, 1993

55. “HE'S TRAPPED IN SOME
KIND OF TIME WARP.”
“A SUPERNATURAL FORCE IS
SHOWING HIM HIS
WEAKNESSES.”
ROGER EBERT

56. SOURCE CODE, 2011

60. “IT'S A F***ING
VIDEOGAME!”
EVERYONE

62. DATABASE

63. 3D NAVIGATION

64. WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO
NAVIGATE THE DATABASE

67. PLACE IS WHERE WE PAUSE
SPACE IS WHERE WE MOVE

69. NAVIGATION COREOGRAPHS
THE BALLET OF CROSS-CHANNEL
USER EXPERIENCE

70.
DAN WILLIS, INTENT PATHS (http://www.flickr.com/photos/uxcrank/5730905682/in/photostream/)

71. THROUGH NAVIGATION WE
BUILD SENSE AND WEAVE
PLACES INTO A COHESIVE
NARRATIVE ONCE AGAIN

72. THE LANGUAGE WE USE
FOR THIS SENSE-MAKING
PROCESS IS THAT OF
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

73. THANK YOU.
@resmini