Many IAs and others that are responsible for information systems worldwide try to develop application strategies - with more or less success. In this interview, we talk about a great IA and UX method of doing this very efficiently. It was developed by Indi Young, who is also one of the founders of Adaptive Path, a renowned IA and User Experience group in San Francisco. After attending her seminar during the PreCon of the IA Summit 2007, where visitors learned how to create a Mental Model (during the teamwork that needs to take place between IAs and their clients), I had the chance to interview her.

One of the things I really like about her is her great ability to describe complex things in an understandable way, using metaphors such as “the hallway test” to help communicate methods like the Mental Model to the business world.

Indi is currently writing a book on creating Mental Models and she has a blog at Rosenfeld Media. Does this grab your attention? Then let’s listen to the interview.

Quick Jump in Audio (40min/13,3 MB):
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01:10 Minute - The beginning of Adaptive Path and Indi’s amazing IA background
13:25 Minute - Indi explains the idea and development of Mental Models
35:22 Minute - A quick look with Indi into the future of IA

 

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Eris Reiss - Information Architect from US and Denmark

The European IA szene had a great time at the EURO IA conference 2006 in Berlin. And one man who’s responsible, with his team of country embassadors, for the great success is Eric Reiss.
Eric is a great supporter of the Euro IA community which is strongly growing within the last years. My name is Wolf and it was an honore for me that I had a chance to talk to him. Let’s hear what he says…

Podcast of this Interview - 33:31 minutes

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Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

 

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Your’re now listening to a new episode (from IA Voice) – it’s an interview with Christina Wodtke and Harry Max. We had a interesting talk down in the restaurant from the conference hotel of the IA Summit. And some answers were even answered by Christina’s baby which was also part of the interview as you will hear. Let’s hear all of it…

Podcast of this Interview - 34:19 minutes

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Christina Wodtke wrote the following book:

 

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Interview with Louis Rosenfeld - IA Author, publisher and one father of IA

The upcoming episode is another interview from the IA Summit in Vancouver. This time I’m talking with Louis Rosenfeld, one father of Information Architecture. Lou was talking here on a summit track about the subject: “IA: not just for the web anymore”. He is holding up Seminars for Corporations about the Content Silos and is working as a publisher. Let’s listen to Lou’s ideas right here …

Podcast of this Interview - 43:08 minutes

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Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:58 minute - What’s your motivation being at the summit?
02:02 minute - Is there something specific that attracts you this field?
03:52 minute - What do you see as your IA mission?
05:10 minute - What part does IA play in your daily routine?
09:00 minute - IA in Business: Do IAs have to learn more business language?
11:20 minute - How to convince top management about the value of IA?
12:50 minute - IA new field - what if the client want’s a semantic network?
15:45 minute - Are there leverages for IAs in increating semantic networks?
18:48 minute - Disolving content silos - how to deal with corporate strategies?
22:15 minute - Would you also do seminars on content silos in Europe?
22:55 minute - IA in Europe - what would your advice be for bigger corporations?
26:23 minute - IA in Healthcare: Where’s the benefit for the healthcare sector?
32:25 minute - Considering target audiences in healthcare - ?
34:02 minute - Should corporations increase implementations of IA processes?
35:00 minute - Focus a little more allso on the I instead of only on the T?
36:35 minute - IA Trends - where is IA heading worldwide?

Further Information on Louis Rosenfeld

• Author of the Polarbear Book:
• Lou’s Blog: Bloug
• Enterprise IA seminar
• Publishing at: rosenfeldmedia

 

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Interview with Jesse James Garrett - IA Author and one inventor of AJAX

Please enjoy the upcoming interview with Jesse James Garrett at the IA Summit. Jesse is the famous author of the IA book “The elements of User Experience“, a founder of Adaptive Path and he created the definition
of AJAX.
It took me about three days to get him for this interview. But finally he gave some quite interesting answers. - Here they are …

Podcast of this Interview - 28:36 minutes

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

00:52 minute - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:39 minute - something specific that attracts you to IA?
03:28 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
05:15 minute - So IA is bridging also the digital and the physical?
05:05 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
07:46 minute - so do innovations in KM needs bottom-up IA?
08:39 minute - What are your experiences with buying in?
10:00 minute - Where does IA have strong leverage?
12:15 minute - Companies which to create semantic networks?
13:56 minute - Context Europe- advice for bigger corporations about IA?
15:40 minute - Where’s the benefit for the healthcare sector in IA?
17:37 minute - Considering target audiences in Healthcare?
19:22 minute - Some explantions about the methods in JJG’s famous book?
24:57 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Jesse James Garrett:

• A founder of Adaptive Path
• His book: The Elements of User Experience

 

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Interview with Peter Morville - IA Author and one father of IA

Enjoy this upcoming interview with Peter Morville. Peter is one Father of IA, Author of the books “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” and “Ambient Findability”, and President of Semantic Studios.
I was very happy that he gave me this interview for all our listeners since it contains some very forward thinking answers. - Here they are…

Podcast of this Interview - 28:14 minutes

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

00:52 minute - Peter, your main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:55 minute - How about People saying you are the father of IA?
03:03 minute - Something specific that attracts you to this field?
04:23 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
06:36 minute - How to sell IA to a potential client?
08:17 minute - …are you also acting then as a consultant?
09:10 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
10:18 minute - How to communicate the importance of controlled vocabularies..?
11:35 minute - What to tell companies…to create semantic networks?
14:38 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn’t understand tagging?
17:10 minute - IA in US and Europe?
18:57 minute - How can the Europeans can catch up with the US?
19:38 minute - IA - where’s the benefit for the healthcare sector?
21:29 minute - Can IA help to take differences in Healthcare markets…?
23:00 minute - IA in Healthcare Knowledge Management Applications?
24:30 minute - Should corporations increase the implementations of IA processes?
25:53 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Peter Morville

• Peter’s Blog
• Book 01: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
• Book 02: Ambient Findability

 

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Interview with the Author and Information Philosoph Dr. David Weinberger

In this episode – I have an interview with Dr. David Weinberger who was holding the keynote speech at the IA Summit 2006 about some new ways of thinking in Information Architecture. He was also holding a speach at the Ars Electronica with the title “When things aren’t What They Are“.
We talked about them here in the interview. And despite he claims that he doesn’t see himself as an IA he has

- 27:24 minutes

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Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:55 minute - Reasons for being at the IA Summit?
02:10 minute - What do you see as your basic “IA”mission?
03:55 minute - …Why we organise in hierarchical trees…
05:53 minute - Are we witnessing the dissolving of hierarchies?
07:22 minute - Is information defined in a new philisophic way now?
14:00 minute - What would you tell companies to create semantic networks..?
14:28 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn’t understand tagging?
15:35 minute - Can tagging creat individual taxinomies?
17:37 minute - Tag sreams and tag clouds?
19:40 minute - IA in Healthcare Business?
20:42 minute - …how I would sneek into tagging system (knowlede management)
23:06 minute - Where is IA heading in your opinion?

Further Information on Dr David Weinberger

• Blog of David Weinberger
• The New Book: Everything is miscellaneous
• Holding the Keyword of the IA summit 2006
• Ars electronica 2005 speach(listen also to the podcast there): “When things Aren’t What They Are”

 

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