My guest today is my friend Abby Covert, also known as Abby the IA. Abby is a Senior Information Architect at Etsy. She wrote the book How to Make Sense of Any Mess, a wonderful primer on information architecture, and co-founded World IA Day. She’s also taught graduate design students and curated global conferences about design. She’s done many of these things remotely over the last decade, which makes her a great guide for how to collaborate in our new reality.

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Show notes

  • Abby the IA (Abby Covert’s website)
  • Etsy
  • How To Make Sense of Any Mess, by Abby Covert
  • World Information Architecture Day
  • Fax machines
  • Melbourne, Florida
  • Rosenfeld Media
  • Advancing Research Conference
  • School of Visual Arts
  • Photo of Abby’s home setup
  • DesignOps Summit
  • The Museum of the Moving Image
  • Louis Rosenfeld
  • Zoom
  • Zoom Webinar
  • Slack
  • Cheryl Platz
  • Mural
  • Steinberg UR12
  • Herman Miller chairs
  • Opening sequence of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

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