Slides from 1/2 hour talk on designing for both the negative and positive sides of Nothing at the first World Information Architecture Day in London on 20th February 2016. Video of the talk can be found on YouTube https://youtu.be/imJHgImxkro?t=1h46m4s

2. Structuring nothing
World Information Architecture Day 2016
London

3. Alastair Somerville

4. @acuity_design

5. Sensory design

6. Touch

7. Low bandwidth

8. No skimming

9. Scottish Parliament

10. Wayfinding

11. Negative information

12. Friction

13. Physical manifestation

15. Nothing
is bad

16. Nothing
is good

17. Architecture of
nothing

18. Describing nothing

19. 2 forms of nothing

21. Amorphous something

23. Nothing

24. The problems of nothing

26. The Martian

27. “We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other
things, not because they are
easy, but because they are
hard…”
John F. Kennedy

28. Rocket science

29. Complexity is not the problem

30. Ambiguity is

31. Design for simplicity?

32. Simplicity does not
solve ambiguity

33. Christmas Day

34. Setting up Skype

36. Clarity does

37. Webcam

38. Information Architecture
can offer clarity

40. The benefits of nothing

42. 3 key benefits

43. Imagination

44. Decision making

45. Self control

46. Ego depletion

47. Situational impairment

48. A map

49. Imperial War Museum

50. Mapping nothing

52. Nature

53. Happiness

55. The problem of being an
architect is you think people
need architecture

56. The metaphor demands
action

57. Design not to be there

58. Hone your sense of
focused laziness

59. Be part of the happiness

61. Thank you