Interview with the Information Designers Aradna Goel and Paul Gould

In this episode you listen to an interview with Aradna Goel and Paul Gould from Maya. The two of them presented some outstanding projects which have a lot to do with the future of IA that Peter Morville calls the merging of the digital and the physical world. Listen to some of their ideas right here in the interview…

(Note: I’m sorry, at some points my questions are way too long
[*] = better skip my too long questioning)

Podcast of this Interview - 40:26 minutes

ia_voice_interview_maya_design.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

01:03 minute - What are your main reasons for being at the IA summit?
03:26 minute - How do you define yourself - IAs?
05:42 minute - “IA brings in the layer of logic…”
06:14 minute - IA title is not necessary in order to be one
08:04 minute - [*] …Talking about the great MAYA deliverables/ case study
09:30 minute - [*] …Going into User Experience
10:10 minute - Talking user classification and information levels
14:12 minute - Understanding the users and getting clients to that thinking
17:11 minute - Where’s the leverage to tell the client the right way?
18:40 minute - When asking clients about customers…
19:48 minute - Does it also have to do with your philosophy at MAYA?
23:17 minute - Great benefit in looking at something from different views
23:56 minute - Talking about healthcare project examples
27:42 minute - Comparing IT infrastructure in a hospital with the physical
28:40 minute - where IA fits really in the picture…
31:28 minute - Question on a interesting new way of persona deliverable
35:00 minute - Where do you see IA in the future?

Further Information on the MAYA projects and the case study mention during the interview:

• View the in-depth case study
• Slides in PowerPoint (25MB)
• Slides in PDF (12MB)
• Slides and Notes in PDF (7MB - smaller imagery)

 

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Interview with the Information Architect Peter Boersma

This episode is an interview with Peter Boersma, also at the IA Summit. Peter is an important Information Architect in the Netherlands. He strongly supports the IA community there and created some IA deliverables already which communicate the field of Information Architecture to the Business World quite well. Listen to his thoughts right here in the interview…

Podcast of this Interview - 19:08 minutes

ia_voice_interview_peter_boersma.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

01:01 minunte - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:49 minunte - Can you tell us something about yourself as an IA?
03:27 minunte - How do you define IA for yourself?
04:05 minunte - Experience Designer sounds interesting as a job title?
04:30 minunte - How do you sell IA to a potential client?
05:25 minunte - How can IA support real business workflow?
06:45 minunte - In which context is IA very strong/less relevant?
08:22 minunte - Business strategies and selling?
08:53 minunte - Comparison of US and Europe?
10:58 minunte - How can the Europeans catch up with the US?
12:08 minunte - Where’s the benefit for the healthcare in IA?
13:37 minunte - How can Intranets of Healthcare companies be optimised with IA?
14:55 minunte - What methods shouldn’t be missing in a professional IA project?
16:35 minunte - In your opinion, where is IA heading - especially in Europe?

Further Information on Peter Boersma

• Peter’s Blog: BEEP

 

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