A Lens A Day - Conversations about Information Architecture: Recent Episodes
Dan Brown
Quick conversations about different topics in information architecture. Guests chat with Dan Brown of EightShapes about distinct perspectives they use when doing information architecture work.
Jasmine Friedl joins Dan Brown to talk about the state of professional development and performance reviews in user experience. Dan asks Jasmine to talk about the assumption that every designer needs to be good at systems thinking and systems design.
Jonathan McFadden and Dan Brown talk about making space at the table for more voices in the practice of user experience. Dan asks Jonathan to help him unpack the assumption that information architecture can't easily be taught.
Katrina Alcorn talks with Dan brown about making teams more collaborative. They also discuss Dan's assumption that IA isn't for everyone.
Hareem Mannan joins Dan Brown to talk about personas and how recruiting in user research is crucial for getting them right. Dan asks Hareem to help him think about whether IA can be taught in UX boot camps or not.
Kaarin Hoff joins Dan Brown to talk about how teams need to be kinder to each other, and maybe pictures can help. Kaarin also helps Dan unpack the assumption that you always need to do a content audit.
Joe Sokohl joins Dan Brown to talk about how information architecture itself is no longer part of many user experience practices. Dan asks Joe to challenge the assumption that every digital product needs a main navigation.
Uday Gajendar joins Dan Brown to talk about the challenges with Education in user experience, and help Dan think through the assumption that navigation must prioritize user tasks.
Joe Natoli joins Dan Brown to talk about dogma in the user experience business, and that the biggest thing missing is... information architecture itself.
Conversations about Information Architecture
Dan Brown talks with Jasmine Orange about the Lens of One Menu, One Purpose
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Dan Brown talks with Karen McGrane about the Lens of Component vs. Page
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Dan Brown talks with Andrew Hinton about the Lens of Context
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Dan Brown talks with Sarah Rose about the Lens of Useful Overlap
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Dan Brown talks with Jenny Benevento about the Lens of Heterogeneity vs. Homogeneity
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Dan Brown talks with Mags Hanley about the Lens of Multiple Homes
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Dan Brown talks with Torey Podmajersky about the Lens of Label/Concept Fit
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Dan Brown talks with Imran Afzal about the Lens of Scannability
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Dan Brown talks with Francis Rowland about the Lens of Seasonality
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Dan Brown talks with Daniel Souza about the Lens of Slow Change
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Dan Brown talks with Dorelle Rabinowitz about the Lens of Vulnerability
Alba Villamil joins Dan Brown to talk about looking at user experience, user research, and information architecture through a new lens.
Some of the topics we discuss:
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The role of ignorance in research
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Consent in research
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The shortcomings of mental models
We also talked about the upcoming half-day conference Critical UX, from HmntyCntrd. At this important event, over the course of several panels, participants will discuss "working in environments that struggle to be truly human-centered in ways that acknowledge privilege, power, and injustice."
I will be attending, and I hope you will, too!
https://hmntycntrd.com/critical-ux
Conversations about Information Architecture
Dan Brown talks with Stephanie Walter about the Lens of Confidence
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Dan Brown talks with Andreas Resmini about the Lens of Familial Relationships
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Dan Brown talks with Bibiana Nunes about the Lens of Escape Hatch
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Dan Brown talks with Ha Phan about the Lens of Wayfinding
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Dan Brown talks with David Dylan Thomas about the Lens of Participation
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Dan Brown talks with Madonnalisa Chan about the Lens of Dynamic Categories
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Dan Brown talks with Katherine Summers about the Lens of Plain Language
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Dan Brown talks with Cordelia Yu about the Lens of Identity
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Dan Brown talks with Ron Bronson about the Lens of Content Types
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Dan Brown talks with Eduardo Ortiz about the Lens of Burden
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Dan Brown talks with Jeff Eaton about the Lens of Content vs. Container
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Dan Brown talks with Peter Merholz about the Lens of Corporate Mythology
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Dan Brown talks with Sarah Barrett about the Lens of Rules
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Dan Brown talks with Dalia Levine about the Lens of Comprehensiveness
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Dan Brown talks with Chiara Ogan about the Lens of Apples to Apples
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Dan Brown talks with Maxine Morris about the Lens of Precedence
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Dan Brown talks with Jeremy Burton about the Lens of Meeting Expectations
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Dan Brown talks with Jorge Arango about the Lens of Inverse Implication
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Dan Brown talks with Cassini Nazir about the Lens of Distraction
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Dan Brown talks with Margot Bloomstein about the Lens of Accountability
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Dan Brown talks with Adam Polansky about the Lens of Importance
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Dan Brown talks with Andy Fitzgerald about the Lens of Browsability
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Dan Brown talks with Andy Vitale about the Lens of Who Benefits
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Dan Brown talks with Rachel Price about the Lens of Metadata Feasibility
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Dan Brown talks with Ren Pope about the Lens of Engineering Feasibility
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Dan Brown talks with Abby Covert about the Lens of Stability
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Dan Brown talks with Anita Cheng about the Lens of Setting Expectations
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Dan Brown talks with Peter Morville about the Lens of Descriptors and Exemplars
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Dan Brown talks with Lisa Maria Marquis about the Lens of Trust
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Dan Brown talks with Reginé Gilbert about the Lens of Education
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Dan Brown talks with Jordan Green about the Lens of Institutional Bias
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Dan Brown talks with Jonathan Colman about the Lens of Titles vs. Labels
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Dan Brown talks with Austin Govella about the Lens of Narrative
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Dan Brown talks with Amy Márquez about the Lens of Ethics
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Dan Brown talks with Marc Rettig about the Lens of Expression of Concepts
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Dan Brown talks with Aishah Griffin about the Lens of Physical Metaphors
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Dan Brown talks with Dan Klyn about the Lens of Reflection of Reality.
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Donna Spencer joins Dan Brown to talk about the Lens of Serendipity.
In this pilot episode, James Melzer joins Dan Brown to talk about the Lens of Mutual Exclusivity, from the Information Architecture Lenses.
Mutual Exclusivity
How does the structure help users delineate categories?