Abby Covert – How to make sense of any mess
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Abby Coverts presentation at From Business to Buttons in Stockholm, April 15 2016. FBTB is the meeting place for everyone who wants hands-on advice on how to generate business value by creating great user experiences.
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Abby Covert – How to make sense of any mess
- 2. I LOVE MAKING SENSE OF MESSES.
- 4. Thinking about INFORMATION as material is hard
- 5. Information can be made from the lack of physical material
- 7. Information architecture is how we arrange the parts to be understandable as a whole.
- 8. 3 LESSONS TO MAKE SENSE OF ANYTHING
- 11. How many duplicative nouns does your team deal with?
- 12. How many duplicative verbs are related to those nouns?
- 13. Model Change vs. Label Change Thing A Thing B Thing OBJECTObject
- 14. One label per noun or verb is not always the best way to go
- 15. The goal is not simplifying The goal is to know what you mean when you say what you say.
- 16. Controlled vocabularies are the greatest thing since sliced bread or pockets. @jcolman’s thumb showing off my book’s controlled vocabulary
- 18. Be the one to simplify the language in your organization.
- 19. #2 THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY
- 20. In most contexts, taxonomy is a tool of rhetoric not an exact science. (Sorry Linnaeus)
- 21. If Fresh Direct classified produce scientifically, no one would be able to find anything.
- 22. The way you choose to organize your produce says something about you.
- 23. There is no one right way to organize something.
- 24. The only thing that matters is reaching your goals.
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- 26. Card Sorting FTW
- 27. Be the one to show an alternative way of organizing something.
- 28. #3 WE NEED PICTURES
- 29. Pictures give us something in common to point to.
- 30. Take the time and space needed to collect and iterate.
- 31. Visualize something hard to explain
- 33. Pie Crust Tomato Sauce & cheese Toppings Slice Be Careful of Reductionism
- 34. Show the process, not just results Pizza Crust cheese Toppings Tomato Sauce
- 36. Familiar Words With agreement comes momentum.
- 37. Be the one to make a picture of the monster in everyone’s head.
- 38. • Simplify the language used in your organization • Show an alternative way of organizing something • Make a picture of the monster in everyone’s head To start making sense of your mess:
- 39. IA is not just for information architects. IA is practiced by everybody.
- 40. I wrote a book about information architecture for everybody! http://abbytheia.com/makesense/ Tack!