Editorial note: I presented this back in March 2024, and prepared this post soon after. But I felt like maybe it wasn't ready for prime-time as a "text" or whatever.Given recent events (today is November 14, 2024), I decided to post it anyway. It feels like the world is more fragile than ever for human Continue reading "The Body Electric for World IA Day 2024"
The theme for World IA Day 2024 is Context. It just so happens, I spent some time writing a book about this topic! I ve been asked to share some ideas from the book about how we should think about context, as designers responsible for creating environments for users, whether digital or analog. So I m sharing Continue reading "About Context for WIAD 2024"
I m proud to have been an interviewee for Jorge s podcast, which just went live with the episode. Here s the interview. A personal note: I ve known Jorge Arango for a long time, and I ve always been impressed with his intelligence, erudition, and keen professionalism. When he started producing a podcast, it didn t surprise me in the Continue reading "The Informed Life: My Interview with Jorge…
In 2016 I had the great pleasure of doing an interview with Misael León, one of the folks leading the amazing team Nearsoft in Mexico. I recently realized I never posted a blog entry about it, so here it is, at last. This was not long after Understanding Context was published, so a lot of Continue reading "Interview with Misael León of Nearsoft"
I had the great pleasure of giving the first talk at this year s UX Hustle Summit in Atlanta. I realized, I m only one relatively privileged person, who got into this career in a very different time, so I didn t want all of this to come from me. So I crowdsourced advice from Twitter and got Continue reading "Your UX Career Path: My talk at UX Hustle 2019"
When I was at this year s IA Conference, I was delighted to be one of the community members interviewed by The IA Studio – a special project from the brilliant folks currently working to revive the Journal of Information Architecture. I hope I don t ramble too much they had some great questions!
Back in 2015, while I was at UX Lisbon to teach an Understanding Context workshop, I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by the excellent UX Podcast guys, as part of a dual conversation with me and the amazing Abby Covert. It was a fun, wide-ranging chat, and I was lucky to be there. Continue reading "UX Podcast Interview at UX Lisbon 2015"
Just a brief post to announce I will soon be changing jobs to join the design leadership team for Honeywell Connected Enterprise — the home of the Honeywell Forge family of products services — headquartered here in Atlanta. I m excited to take on the (frankly, terrifying, but realllly invigorating) challenges of leading the work Continue reading "Forging ahead "
I had the great pleasure of giving a talk at the Information Architecture Conference (the new incarnation of the venerable beloved IA Summit ) in March of 2019. A few key quotes from the talk, to give you the gist: Navigation is not the menu on a screen. Navigation is what people do. I think Continue reading "What We Talk About When We Talk About Navigation"
I had a great time giving this talk at the amazing CanUX conference (where I also got to teach a rebooted version of my Understanding Context workshop). A few key points from the talk: Humans and their environment are part of one system together. When we think of them as separate, we make big mistakes. Continue reading "Our Future with Humans Machines: My Talk for CanUX 2018"