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Confident in Our Value Proposition
Kaarin HoffIA, The Understanding Group
@kaarinh @undrstndng
Information Everywhere, Architects Everywhere.“ ”
Everyone architects information, but everyone is not an information
architect. There is a mentality
difference.
What I mean when I say “information architect”
Photo credit: https://coronalabs.com/dilbert/
Engineer is an identity, a way of approaching the world,an affinity your friends and neighbors won’t let you forget.
Why can’t you just build it?
Why don’t you just know the right answer?
How many solutions could there possibly be?
Why can’t you just build it?
Why don’t you just know the right answer?
How many solutions could there possibly be?
IA isn’t about having the right answers; it’s about having the right approach that gets you to the right answers.
Figure out the WHAT
Before determining HOW
Pace Layers
Pace Layers
Example
Application
Tools
Best Practices
Approach
Approach
Photo credit: http://blog.buildllc.com/2010/05/cardboard-forts-a-critical-analysis-part-1/Photo credit: Scott Leslie, alan_levine_and_kids2 (creative commons)
Backyard Fort
• Users• Stakeholders• Tools
• Time constraints • Risks• Budget
Exposing the Parts: Fort
Deciding Together: Fort
Deciding Together: Fort
Exposing the Parts: Digital Example
Exposing the Parts: Digital Example
Determining the System: Fort weights and dependencies
Deciding Together: Fort
Deciding Together: Fort
Determining the System: Digital Example
Determining the System: Fort
Determining the System: Digital Example
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesBy Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
“Each category valorizes some point of view and silences another.”
Meaning is negotiated
Deciding Together: Fort
Deciding Together: Digital Example
Great final products
Great final products
Childcare
Childcare
Childcare Meaning is negotiated
Thank you for listening!
Kaarin HoffIA, The Understanding Group
@kaarinh @undrstndng
When is this Toolkit needed?
Snow fort: http://www.stonehurstmanor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/snow-fort.jpgBusiness fort: http://www.childrensdiscoverymuseum.net/exhibits/photo-gallery/luckey-climber/
Clifford GeertzAmerican Symbolic Anthropologist
“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. I take culture to be those webs and the analysis of it to be not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.”