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The Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, that we better know as Le Corbusier, wrote “Vers une architecture” in 1923. The book, soon to become one of the most successful and controversial pamphlet in the history of architecture and the manifesto of Modernism, was mostly a collection of essays and articles coauthored with purist painter and personal friend Amédée Ozenfant and originally published on their cubist periodical L’Esprit nouveau. At its core, it was a passionate call to...

The draft version of a working paper me and Bertil Carlsson have written for the Relating Systems Thinking & Design 2013 conference in Oslo, October 2013. While information is becoming pervasive, and products and services are becoming parts of larger systems, many of which participating into emergent, complex information-based ecosystems where actors are co-producers and where relationships between elements, channels and touchpoints are messy and non-linear, within the area of informatics...

A while ago I promised a brief list of resources on space, place and place-making to friends and students.

It took a while, I concede, but here it is. I decided to start with books first, and leave interesting articles and papers for another round. Books are much more reader-friendly, and some of the stuff is thick.

A while ago I promised a brief list of resources on space, place and place-making to friends and students.
It took a while, I concede, but here it is. I decided to start with boo...

If you work on cross-channel user experience right now, one of the trickiest questions you might get asked is how do you communicate the change in scope to both stakeholders and the design team. What deliverables you use, and how do you structure them. Here's a few comments on one of the most intriguing ideas around, Dan Willis's (@uxcrank) intent paths.

Intents come into two flavors: primary, always represented as being the forward choice for the user, and secondary or alternative, which c...

The practice of information architecture (IA) as “the structural design of shared information environments” has been changing in the past few years under the influx of media convergence and ubiquitous and pervasive computing. IA is today uniquely positioned to help improve the design of successful user experiences and customer journeys in pervasive, cross-channel environments.

An upcoming workshop will introduce the grounding concepts of classical IA, the shift to pervasive information archite...

Simon and Tomas? Who the hell are they and what do they have to do with cross-channel, multi-channel, pervasive information architecture and cross-media? Is that a guitar-and-mandolin duo, by any chance? If it is, I'm out of here.

Successful cross-channel experiences are built on our perception of this wild array of information, users, devices, and places we use daily as one or more coherent "digital dwellings". Where we place the walls, how we shape the connections from one room...

At the end of March I'll be presenting my workshop on Pervasive Information Architecture at the 12th ASIS&T IA Summit in Denver, Colorado. It's going to be a great gig, and you can register for it online directly on the IAS11 website. If you want to know a little more, this post is for you. Read on.

A few notes on the workshop on pervasive information architecture I will be presenting at the 12th ASIS&T IA Summit in Denver, USA, March 30 2011.

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As with many a good discussion, this got started by chance.

While I was cruising around with too many tabs open in my browser, one of them caught my attention. Stefano Bussolon (@sweetdreamerit), psychologist and information architect, was commenting on something Peter Morville (@morville) had just tweeted on structures and patterns. That seemed interesting.

As with many a good discussion, this got started by chance.
While I was cruising around with too many tabs open in my browser, one of t...

I'll be hosting a pre-conference workshop at EuroIA 2010 on September 23: An Introduction to Information Architecture. If you think you might be interested in joining us for a few hours of IA and hands-on design, or you are just curious about how the workshop is going to roll, well, this is the right place to be: just read on.

I'll be hosting a pre-conference workshop at EuroIA 2010 on September 23: An Introduction to Information Architecture. If you think you might be interested in jo...

When some two years ago we started working on what was to become the Journal of Information Architecture, I had already started charting what academia was thinking and writing on the subject of IA. It was not easy, as the one word which could basically explain how the field looked was fractured.

When some two years ago we started working on what was to become the <a href="http://journalofia.com/">Journal of Information Architecture</a>, I had already started charting w...