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EdUI Closing Keynote "How to Make Sense of Any Mess"

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As personal information overload becomes widespread and everything seems more complicated, we find ourselves needing to understand the tools and processes we can use to make sense of complex subjects and situations.

These tools aren’t hard to learn or even tough to implement, but they’re also not part of many people’s educations.

Information Architecture is a practice of making sense: a set of principles, lessons, and tools to help anyone make sense of anything. Whoever you are – student or professional; designer, technologist, or small business owner; intern or executive – discover how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavor.

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EdUI Closing Keynote "How to Make Sense of Any Mess"

  1. 1. Our world is a mess. A large part of this mess is made of information.
  2. 2. A tsunami of information is still headed our way... *HT Richard Saul Wurman
  3. 3. No matter what our job, our world is full of messes we must make sense of
  4. 4. The majority of messes we face are made of information (and people)
  5. 5. Thinking about information as material is hard
  6. 6. Every thing has information
  7. 7. Information can be made from the lack of physical material $3.99 $7.99 $5.75
  8. 8. Data is facts, observations, and questions about something. Content is whatever a user is interacting with, or as a maker, whatever you’re arranging or sequencing. Information is is whatever a user interprets from the arrangement or sequence of things they encounter. Each viewer’s: • Belief or non-belief that other cookies were on that plate. • Subjective reasoning for the unequal amount of cookies. The cookies, the plate, the signage, the crumbs, the smells in the air, the other products in the case and items on the menu et al... The individual pieces of context, knowledge, assumptions and questions each viewer considers during their judgement of the cookie arrangement. Let’s dissect this scene.
  9. 9. There is no true information 8 of 10 doctors do not recommend doctor recommended
  10. 10. We make and use things within a nested set of architectures
  11. 11. Your level of focus changes the details you can see
  12. 12. These levels of place are deeply “intertwingled” *HT Ted Nelson
  13. 13. 16 “To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” - Carl Sagan
  14. 14. Change at one level has implications at other levels
  15. 15. 18 Your team You Your Boss or Client Their Bosses The Boss The Competition The Goal Your Users Other Stakeholders
  16. 16. Everyone has an opinion and it can be frustrating to really talk things out
  17. 17. Frustration develops when people have different mental models
  18. 18. Objects Allow us to compare our mental models
  19. 19. When we have something in common to point to we can reach agreement more easily
  20. 20. With agreement comes momentum
  21. 21. But often it is more than two people, and more than two models to reconcile...
  22. 22. A mess like this can easily feel impossible to make sense of
  23. 23. Many people get overwhelmed at this point
  24. 24. They think of ways to hide the mess...
  25. 25. Or they think of ways to pretty up the mess... New User tutorial to explain the mess Incentive structure for dealing with the mess Fancy Front end fluffing
  26. 26. ...the mess is still a mess.
  27. 27. ...but they have bought time.
  28. 28. Until the mess grows (as all messes do when given time)
  29. 29. Complexity can get in the way of true understanding 32 Rabbit Hole of Complexity
  30. 30. Uncertainty Fear History Politics
  31. 31. Information Architecture (IA) tools and concepts to help people make sense of messes made of information (and people)
  32. 32. We spend much of our lives trying to Architect Information to Make sense
  33. 33. Ontology Taxonomy Choreography Critical Components Of IA* *HT @DanKlyn
  34. 34. 1. Ontology 37
  35. 35. 38 This is a ﬁsh.
  36. 36. Ontology = Meaning 39 Do we know what we mean when we say what we say? - @DanKlyn
  37. 37. Meaning is subjective Meaning is demographic Meaning is socio political Meaning gets lost in translation Meaning is complex 40
  38. 38. Ontology is the act of choosing the language to be used or not used within a speciﬁc context.
  39. 39. Controlled Vocabularies • A controlled vocabulary is a list of approved terms and deﬁnitions for a particular context and/or setting • This exercise can help teams to decide on things like: – Variant Spellings (i.e. American vs. British) – Scientiﬁc vs. Popular Term Use (i.e. Cockroaches vs. Periplaneta Americana) – Acceptable Synonyms (i.e. Automobile vs. Car) – Acceptable Acronyms (i.e. GE vs. General Electric) – Business vs. User Terms (i.e. What we say in meetings vs. what we say to customers) – Identiﬁcation of homographs (i.e. the word “pool” can relate to “swimming pool” or “shooting”) 42
  40. 40. 43 h+p://6thﬂoor.blogs.ny:mes.com/2011/05/20/words-we-dont-say/ H/t Kurt Anderson
  41. 41. Start with language not interfaces
  42. 42. Remember language is not just words
  43. 43. I am sorry you have having issues using our mobile site. I am sure I will be able to help you...Can you see the hamburger menu? Careful: We LOVE to use words anyways even if we have to make them up
  44. 44. We call this an “uncontrolled” vocabulary
  45. 45. Uncontrolled vocabularies increase linguistic insecurity
  46. 46. People suffering from linguistic insecurity aren’t as easy to talk things out with
  47. 47. 2. Taxonomy 50
  48. 48. Taxonomy = Structure 51
  49. 49. There are only 5 ways to organize anything 52 1. Location: Rome is a city in Italy 2. Alphabetical: Rome starts with “R” 3. Time: Rome started in 753 BC 4. Category: Rome is a Romantic city 5. Hierarchy: Rome is within Italy, which is within Europe, which is within the Eastern and Northern Hemisphere *HT Richard Saul Wurman - Informa:on Anxiety 2
  50. 50. 53
  51. 51. Organizing things isn't the hard part 54 Agreeing is the hard part
  52. 52. A facet is a particular aspect, or feature about some “thing” The more facets something has the more ways it can be organized against other things.
  53. 53. 20 ways to organize a box of vegetables 1.!By cost at the grocery in the USA (Location) 2.!By cost at the grocery in the UK (Location) 3.!By countries it is eaten in (Location) 4.!By ﬁrst letter scientiﬁc names (Alphabetical) 5.!By ﬁrst letter popular names (Alphabetical) 6.!By ﬁrst letter cultural names (Alphabetical) 7.!By seasonality of harvest (Time) 8.!By length of season (Time) 9.!By cooking time (Time) 10.!By popularity today (Time) 11.!By popularity 100 years ago (Time) 12.!By color (Category) 13.!By taste (Category) 14.!By texture (Category) 15.!By size (Category) 16.!By growing style (Hierarchy) 17.!By climate (Hierarchy) 18.!By type (Hierarchy) 19.!By soil type (Hierarchy) 20.!By best storing technique (Hierarchy) 10 facets of a piece of produce 1.! Color 2.! Texture 3.! Taste 4.! Season Planted 5.! Season Harvested 6.! Soil Grown In 7.! Class 8.! Subclass 9.! Countries Consumed in 10.!Cost by Country
  54. 54. Taxonomy is Rhetoric 57 The way you choose to organize your vegetables says something about what kind of store you are
  55. 55. 58 “It takes knowledge to know that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom not to put it in a fruit salad.” – Miles Kington
  56. 56. Mental Models Matter A mental model is an explanation for the way someone makes sense of something. These models of perception shape our behavior and how we relate to information that we encounter. 59
  57. 57. 3. Choreography 60
  58. 58. Choreography = Intent • Context: the circumstances that form the setting for an interaction • Channel: A medium for communication or the passage of information 61
  59. 59. 62 How you choreograph Your product says something about who you are
  60. 60. 63 Home HomeHomeHomePosts Explore Create Post Direction (Default/ Front Facing) Grid (On/Off) Flash (No, Auto, On) Choose from Library Home Home HomePhotos on Phone Video (On/Off) Take Photo HomeHomeHomeUser Proﬁle Activity (Following/ News) Comment Direct Like Delete Likers Copy Share URL Email Photo Tag People Post to Followers Share Copy Share URL Email Photo Tag People Your Proﬁle Edit Proﬁle Photos of User Followers Following Post (Direct) Edit Tilt Frame Filter Blur (Off, Circle, Line) Brightness (Default, On) Caption Tag People Add to Photo Map (On/Off) Name this Location Foursquare Results Facebook (On/Off) Twitter (On/Off) Tumblr (On/Off) Email (On/Off) Add Email Address from Contacts Add Email Address Manually IPhone Contacts Add Email Twitter Login Tumblr Login Facebook Login HomeHomeHomeYour Posts Comments Comment Caption Send To Next Post Comments Report Inappropriate Tweet Copy Share URL Comment Like Choreographing simplicity can be really complex
  61. 61. Warning: Information architecture Always exists 64
  62. 62. Information Architecture is not just for Information Architects
  63. 63. If you make anything: you are probably already practicing information architecture
  64. 64. http://abbytheia.com/makesense/ Available on Amazon in paperback and kindle I wrote a book about Ia! Thanks!

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