I just did my presentation for World Information Architecture Day Columbus.
I have been out of the “IA game” for a while, but it was nice to revist something that is core to my professional identity.
I gave a little bit of history about information architecture and then shared some academia/industry & research/practice napkins that we drew in 2010. Posed questions for the audience on what this might mean for IA today. Great discussion!
Research & Practice in Information Architecture – Revisiting 16-Year-Old Napkin Sketches
- What is the relationship between Academic Research and Industry Practice in IA? That was a question Andrea Resmini and Keith asked at the 11th annual IA Summit (2010) in a “back of a napkin” collective-thinking exercise.
- Sixteen years later: where are we? Have we addressed all the gaps, or have they gotten wider? Is AI making things better or worse for IA? We will review the old napkins and discuss what they might mean for us in today’s world.
A few of the links if you want to explore more:
- iaroundtable.org: about the many roundtables we have had, and the book that resulted
- Research and practice in IA article: about the napkin-sketching exercise in 2010
- Information Architecture Front and Center: In Conversation with Keith Instone
- Advances in Information Architecture (buy the book from Springer)
(Photo by Alysson Franklin)
