OTC (Ontology—Topology—Choreography) doesn’t explain Information Architecture. Rather, it explains how the things we address when we work on an information architecture get their thingness: through involvement in human inhabitation of places (choreography), by way of their being situated in inhabited environments (topology), and on account their belonging within a nexus of afforded and appropriate uses (ontology).
Read moreExplaining Information Architecture
In this four-minute video, Explaining IA, Dan Klyn gives a brief history of the field of Information Architecture beginning with Richard Saul Wurman.
Read moreWelcome Video and Reflections On The 3rd Annual World Information Architecture Day
TUG has been a global sponsor of World IA Day since its inception, and our staff & alum have served in volunteer capacities at the local and global levels. This video welcomes global WIAD 2014 attendees and introduces some information architecture concepts.
Read moreA $10 Differentiation Between Architecture and Design
Your project is a cloth. Architecture makes cuts. Design makes the resulting pieces the best ones possible, solving problems toward a goal.
Read moreTeaching IA by Learning about Architecture
Dan Klyn is a practicing information architect, and teaches Information Architecture (IA) at the University of Michigan's School of Information.
Read moreInformation Architecture and Interaction Design
Part of a conversation between Dan Klyn and Matt Nish-Lapidus about how information architecture and interaction design are inseparable and inter-essential.
Read moreSkirmishing With Ill-Defined and Wicked Problems
Dan Klyn discusses Peter Rowe's book Design Thinking and his assertion that most architecture work is set in motion against ill-defined or wicked problems.
Read moreUnderstanding Information Architecture
Dan Klyn explains information architecture as the interplay of meaning, arrangement, and rules for interaction.
Read moreLearning from Charles Moore’s Condo at The Sea Ranch
In addition to preserving Moore’s literal menagerie of toys, architectural models, trinkets, and idols, the condo was equipped with several books about Charles Moore. In one of those books, I came across these 5 design principles. What a treat, to spend time in a place that resulted from these very principles becoming operative in the world. In the statements that follow, try swapping-out the word “buildings” for the phrase “digital products + services.”
Read moreArchitecture and mental health crisis: two case studies
Alexander’s myriad (and often counter-intuitive) decisions about the situating of material in space at Julian Street, so hotly contested with the client, resulted in a building of exceptional beauty and value. A building that plays an active role in the healing of the people it shelters.
Read moreMarvin Minsky at TEDMED3: what we need from artificial intelligence
In the time I set aside today to keep working on my biography of Richard Saul Wurman, I pulled some videos off of a CDROM that was shipped to attendees of RSW’s third TEDMED conference, in 2003. The image and sound quality are what you’d expect from analog-to-digital conversion circa 2003. But the content is as good as it gets.
Read moreLATCH: 5 ways to organize information
A video of Richard Saul Wurman from the promotional press kit for Information Anxiety 2 (2000)
Read moreChristopher Alexander: this is what you're trying to do!
Excerpt from an interview published in Tricycle Magazine with the architect and theorist Christopher Alexander
Read moreThe case against simplification
15 geometric properties of wholeness
Illustrations from the work of the architect and theorist Christopher Alexander: the fifteen geometric relationships that more often than not occur in structures that are whole, beautiful and alive.
Read moreThe circle that wanted to be a square
Dan Klyn provides illustrations of simple geometries to express the exploration of what is good in language and structure.
Read moreDan Klyn Interviewed By IA Pioneer Lou Rosenfield
A 2016 podcast discussing Dan Klyn’s path into information architecture, and his research of Richard Saul Wurman, and Christopher Alexander.
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