The Second Italian IA Summit
We did it again.
Last year in Rome, this year in Trento.
Last year a one-day gig, this year a two-days opus. What didn't change was the enthusiasm: 230 people attended the free conference, and it looks like they loved what they saw and heard. After some long planning and kung-fu fighting, the Second Italian IA Summit is now behind our back, and it's been a success. Let me tell you why.
From Digital to Physical Spaces
Information architecture is not just for the Web: information architecture has a larger impact on many offline activities and affects our daily experience in many different ways.
Its contribution becomes crucial where complexity, unfamiliarity and information overload stand in the way of the user.
We would like to outline a unified model of information architecture able to traverse the diverse contexts we encounter daily, from digital to physical spaces, providing a conceptual framework for the design of cognitive and informational continuity between environments.
Tagging in Las Vegas
The 8th IA Summit closed down yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year FaceTag was part of the Research Track and our man on a tagging mission, Emanuele Quintarelli, was appointed Chief Evangelist Maximum and sent there to tell the more-than-800-IAs crowd what's all this top-down bottom-up affair.
Of CMS and WYSIWYG editors
Should writers and contributors using CMS have a say in how a web site renders text and paragraphs?
Opinions differ. I consider this a much tougher question than it seems at first, even in these times of UX and Rich Internet Applications.
FaceTagging
FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking Information Architecture resources using a rich faceted classification scheme based on the CRG guidelines to improve the browsability and findability of the flat keywords space of user-generated tags.
