Slides from the opening keynote I got to give at the 9th annual Italian IA Summit in Bologna, Italy. Audio available at: https://soundcloud.com/dan-klyn/opening-keynote-italian-ia-summit-2015-bologna-italy
You're Screwing Up The World - Profound Opposite Truths in ArchitectureDan Klyn
Most of the slides from a talk I got to give at IA CAMP in Tokyo, Japan on June 17, 2015.
The slides in red are place-holders for as-yet unpublished excerpts from a speech Christopher Alexander gave at the Harvard GSD in 1982.
I received permission from Mr. Alexander's representatives to use the material in Tokyo for this event, but have not yet asked for all of the relevant permissions to publish.
Doors are our common language for passing into a place for commerce, socialization or pleasure. Passing from one experience to the next. Doors are our refuge at the end of a long day, they are the start to every work day, every meeting, every meal.
Search is the closest thing we have to a front door, yet it is so often forgotten in the design of user experiences.
Our digital world is becoming more and more like a real place, where we spend our time rather than a tool that we use and put down.
This short talk for Search Love Boston 2013 covers some ways in which user experience and search professionals can better work together to make the internet a better place.
You're Screwing Up The World - Profound Opposite Truths in ArchitectureDan Klyn
Most of the slides from a talk I got to give at IA CAMP in Tokyo, Japan on June 17, 2015.
The slides in red are place-holders for as-yet unpublished excerpts from a speech Christopher Alexander gave at the Harvard GSD in 1982.
I received permission from Mr. Alexander's representatives to use the material in Tokyo for this event, but have not yet asked for all of the relevant permissions to publish.
Doors are our common language for passing into a place for commerce, socialization or pleasure. Passing from one experience to the next. Doors are our refuge at the end of a long day, they are the start to every work day, every meeting, every meal.
Search is the closest thing we have to a front door, yet it is so often forgotten in the design of user experiences.
Our digital world is becoming more and more like a real place, where we spend our time rather than a tool that we use and put down.
This short talk for Search Love Boston 2013 covers some ways in which user experience and search professionals can better work together to make the internet a better place.
Part one of a three part workshop co taught with Dan Klyn and Christina Wodtke on Feb 7, 2013 at General Assembly in NYC.
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Information architecture (IA) once was practiced as a sort of web-era librarianship. It was about organizing the information contained within websites to make things easier to find and use. But today an increasingly significant proportion of our daily business is conducted digitally. Using a variety of devices, people communicate with one another, search for information and entertainment, make retail purchases, initiate and negotiate business transactions, and more.
This class will explore well-architected digital experiences. What does it mean to architect information? How does the structure of information relate to understanding? How can information architects manage complex information across channels and contexts? What unique value can professional information architects bring to the creation and delivery of products and services? What is the interplay of information architecture and the other disciplines within user experience? This class will provide a broad introduction to a useful set of tools and ideas that provide a framework under which user and business insight can be harvested and used in pursuit of real business goals.
The fourth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Understanding the terms stake, stakeholder, make, maker and how these role intersect in terms of needs. Development of directional and specific measurable goals.
Interactions South America 2015 KeynoteAbby Covert
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren’t hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people’s education. Information Architecture is a practice of making sense. A set of principles, lessons and tools to help anyone make sense of anything. Whether you are – a student or professional, a designer, technologist or small business owner, an intern or executive – learn how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavor.
Understanding What It Is Like to Not UnderstandAbby Covert
The eighth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: How to have a great conversation, interviewing basics, and how to write questions that get good answers.
What terms and concepts do you use to deliver your product experience? What organizational structures do you use to present those terms and concepts? To what degree is the meaning you intend through those choices clear to the person for which you intended it? These are the questions to ask yourself when attempting to make a product make sense to others.
Information Architecture is the practice of making sense of meaning through the consideration of ontology, taxonomy and choreography. In this three hour workshop we will discuss and work through what it means to think about affecting the information architecture of a product.
The fifth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Putting the Why before the what and the what before the how. The relationship of goals, requirements and features. How to deal with needed research and data as a requirement.
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren't hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people's education.
Information Architecture is a practice of making sense. A set of principles, lessons and tools to help anyone make sense of any thing. Whether you are - a student or professional, a designer, technologist or small business owner, an intern or executive - learn how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavor.
Creating Clarity and Establishing TruthAbby Covert
The sixth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Addressing "What now?", Creating an Elevator Pitch to further clarify audience and purpose prior to feature level discussions.
San Francisco Labor Landmark PhotographyKim A Munson
Stunning photography by artists Wendy Crittenden and Tom Griscom in contrasting styles, featuring locations important to the San Francisco labor movement. Exhibition catalog is available on iTunes and Blurb print on demand: http://blur.by/1zhkQ0r
The images supplied in this presentation are intended for academic purposes only; text is copyright Kim Munson, rights to images are held by Griscom and Crittenden.
This work will be on display at the Special Collections Gallery, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University, March 19 - August 9, 2015. Opening event April 2.
This talk was presented at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City on May 15, 2019. Speakers were Maeve Clark and Melody Dworak. Event description follows:
Iowa City Public Library’s history experts will tell the tale of 1960s-‘80s downtown Urban Renewal, and how it led to the beloved and thriving Pedestrian Mall of today. Just in time for the launch of the final stage of the City’s Pedestrian Mall Improvements Project, come learn about pre-Urban Renewal downtown, controversies plaguing its redesign, and favorite hangouts and watering holes of Iowa City literary legends.
This program is part of ICPL's Weber Days, a series of Local History programs and events honoring the memory and work of Iowa City Historian Irving B. Weber.
The Dr Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz, 2015Ed The Head
Quizmaster's Cut. Includes a few questions that were eaten up by Gmail, and consequently never made it to the quiz.
Some visual Qs may not make sense because they were based on vocal cues, without which I hold quizmastering to be hollow.
Set and presented by Aryaman Nath, Subhav Duggal and myself on February 4th, 2015.
Questions from the prelims of our MELAS Quiz(Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports) conducted on the 16th July 2016 at St Francis College for Women, Hyderabad as part of the K-Circle College Quiz Fest
Part one of a three part workshop co taught with Dan Klyn and Christina Wodtke on Feb 7, 2013 at General Assembly in NYC.
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Information architecture (IA) once was practiced as a sort of web-era librarianship. It was about organizing the information contained within websites to make things easier to find and use. But today an increasingly significant proportion of our daily business is conducted digitally. Using a variety of devices, people communicate with one another, search for information and entertainment, make retail purchases, initiate and negotiate business transactions, and more.
This class will explore well-architected digital experiences. What does it mean to architect information? How does the structure of information relate to understanding? How can information architects manage complex information across channels and contexts? What unique value can professional information architects bring to the creation and delivery of products and services? What is the interplay of information architecture and the other disciplines within user experience? This class will provide a broad introduction to a useful set of tools and ideas that provide a framework under which user and business insight can be harvested and used in pursuit of real business goals.
The fourth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Understanding the terms stake, stakeholder, make, maker and how these role intersect in terms of needs. Development of directional and specific measurable goals.
Interactions South America 2015 KeynoteAbby Covert
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren’t hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people’s education. Information Architecture is a practice of making sense. A set of principles, lessons and tools to help anyone make sense of anything. Whether you are – a student or professional, a designer, technologist or small business owner, an intern or executive – learn how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavor.
Understanding What It Is Like to Not UnderstandAbby Covert
The eighth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: How to have a great conversation, interviewing basics, and how to write questions that get good answers.
What terms and concepts do you use to deliver your product experience? What organizational structures do you use to present those terms and concepts? To what degree is the meaning you intend through those choices clear to the person for which you intended it? These are the questions to ask yourself when attempting to make a product make sense to others.
Information Architecture is the practice of making sense of meaning through the consideration of ontology, taxonomy and choreography. In this three hour workshop we will discuss and work through what it means to think about affecting the information architecture of a product.
The fifth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Putting the Why before the what and the what before the how. The relationship of goals, requirements and features. How to deal with needed research and data as a requirement.
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren't hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people's education.
Information Architecture is a practice of making sense. A set of principles, lessons and tools to help anyone make sense of any thing. Whether you are - a student or professional, a designer, technologist or small business owner, an intern or executive - learn how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavor.
Creating Clarity and Establishing TruthAbby Covert
The sixth class of a 15 week course in Information Architecture taught at Parsons, the New School for Design. Topics include: Addressing "What now?", Creating an Elevator Pitch to further clarify audience and purpose prior to feature level discussions.
San Francisco Labor Landmark PhotographyKim A Munson
Stunning photography by artists Wendy Crittenden and Tom Griscom in contrasting styles, featuring locations important to the San Francisco labor movement. Exhibition catalog is available on iTunes and Blurb print on demand: http://blur.by/1zhkQ0r
The images supplied in this presentation are intended for academic purposes only; text is copyright Kim Munson, rights to images are held by Griscom and Crittenden.
This work will be on display at the Special Collections Gallery, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University, March 19 - August 9, 2015. Opening event April 2.
This talk was presented at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City on May 15, 2019. Speakers were Maeve Clark and Melody Dworak. Event description follows:
Iowa City Public Library’s history experts will tell the tale of 1960s-‘80s downtown Urban Renewal, and how it led to the beloved and thriving Pedestrian Mall of today. Just in time for the launch of the final stage of the City’s Pedestrian Mall Improvements Project, come learn about pre-Urban Renewal downtown, controversies plaguing its redesign, and favorite hangouts and watering holes of Iowa City literary legends.
This program is part of ICPL's Weber Days, a series of Local History programs and events honoring the memory and work of Iowa City Historian Irving B. Weber.
The Dr Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz, 2015Ed The Head
Quizmaster's Cut. Includes a few questions that were eaten up by Gmail, and consequently never made it to the quiz.
Some visual Qs may not make sense because they were based on vocal cues, without which I hold quizmastering to be hollow.
Set and presented by Aryaman Nath, Subhav Duggal and myself on February 4th, 2015.
Questions from the prelims of our MELAS Quiz(Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports) conducted on the 16th July 2016 at St Francis College for Women, Hyderabad as part of the K-Circle College Quiz Fest
A presentation to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) local Toronto group by Ian Hooper. Ian gave the group a primer on the history of Industrial Design.
Video of the presentation: http://www.vimeo.com/24954089
Produced for the Bachelor of New Media Arts core subject: NM1000 Introduction to New Media. The course provides an overview of communication technologies and art production in the 20th century.
This was a presentation I gave at the Smithsonian 2.0 meeting in January 2009, to the conference participants and the National Board of the Smithsonian. I was chuffed that I had the privilege of sitting next to Secretary Clough over dinner.
The final set of the open quiz conducted by Quizzat Quiz Club of School of Engineering, CUSAT in concurrence with the Dhishna 2017 Tech Fest. Quiz master : Edwin Wilson
Strategy & Structure for U-M Commmunicators' ForumDan Klyn
Slides from a presentation I gave remotely at U-M's Communicators' Forum in Ann Arbor on January 29, 2015.
Audio recording: https://soundcloud.com/dan-klyn/strategy-structure-from-communicators-forum-at-university-of-michigan
Anne Richardson on Will Vinton/2018 Oregon Film History Conference talkAnneRichardson11
Anne Richardson, director of Oregon Cartoon Institute, presents a talk contextualizing the emergence of Oscar winning artist-entrepreneur Will Vinton (1947-2018) in Portland, Oregon. The talk was presented at the fourth annual Oregon Film History Conference. Will Vinton was in the audience, as were Sheldon Renan and Brooke Jacobson, two generational cohorts who played a role in his emergence.
Slides from a talk I got to give at ConveyUX 2015 in Seattle.
There's audio and video (of the slides, not of me pacing back and forth on stage):
https://vimeo.com/117540225
Strategy & Structure - Interact London 2014Dan Klyn
From a talk I got to give at the first #interactLDN conference at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London
Video: https://vimeo.com/108630770
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
23. 1962
West elevation blueprint drawing of TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in New York City by Eero Saaranen
ALWAYS DESIGN A THING
BY CONSIDERING IT
IN ITS NEXT LARGER CONTEXT
Eliel Saaranen
31. 1894
Santler Dog Cart, the earliest British-made automobile. Photograph by Martin Godwin for The Guardian.
32. 1899
Horsey Horseless, early American-made automobile. Illustration from TIME magazine online,
http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686,00.html
34. St. Francis de Sales Church in Muskegon, Michigan by Marcel Breuer. Photo by Dan Klyn
33TOWARD GOOD
STRUCTURE
35. MAPPED
INTENTIONSAn “Elephant Path” from the back cover of Jan-Dirk van der Burg’s book Olifantenpaadjes
http://www.amazon.com/Desire-Lines-Olifantenpaadjes-Jan-Dirk-Burg/dp/908176070X
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36. MAPPED INTENTIONS
Desire Lines in Detriot by Sweet Juniper
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/06/streets-with-no-name.html
37. Alfred Korzybski
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY,
BUT IF CORRECT, IT HAS A SIMILAR STRUCTURE
WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR ITS USEFULNESS
55. Photo of Richard Saul Wurman for LOOK Magazine by Joel Baldwin
1971
Richard Saul Wurman
THE CLASSIC,
PERVASIVE
SEDUCTIONTO
DESIGNERS HAS BEEN
TO FIND A SOLUTION
INSTEAD OF THE
TRUTH
67. A captivating experience.
News bringsthe beautiful editorial layouts
and typographyof print to the screen. Enjoy
interactive and engaging stories, rich with
photo galleries, videos, and animation.
Content is optimized for both iPhone and
iPad, so you’ll have a great reading
experience no matter which device you’re
using.
CHANGED ARRANGEMENT =
CHANGED EXPERIENCE
70. 1972
Analysis of all of the words on advertising billboard signs along the Las Vegas “strip” in 1969, in Learning From Las Vegas ,
Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour, Published by MIT Press, Cambridge
86. DECORATED SHED –LIKE MODEL
• Less Risky Duck
• Increased Dependence on Context
• Increased Dependence on
Excellence in Implementation
and Maintenance