Today’s Big Web Show guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts; and author of How To Make Sense of Any Mess, a “brilliant introduction to information architecture” (Peter Morville) that is frequently purchased at Amazon with Don’t Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things, the two classics of usable design.
Discussed: why IA matters now more than ever, the difference between IA and content strategy (IA is building the vehicle, CS is putting fueling it and making sure it won’t run out of gas), writing and designing a book, building agreement among stakeholders, “not having opinions, not having ideas of one’s own,” IA’s origins in language and structure, the fun of the IA Summit, the creation and growth of World IA Day, the joy of teaching, and more.
Enjoy Episode ? 142 of The Big Web Show: Information Architecture is Still Very Much a Thing, with Abby Covert.
URLs
http://abbytheia.com
https://twitter.com/abby_the_ia
https://twitter.com/IAinstitute
http://worldiaday.org
https://twitter.com/SVAPOD
http://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com
http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Sense-Any-Mess/dp/1500615994/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retronym
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