Dan Klyn has been thinking about how language, structure, and meaning might make digital spaces “good” for over twenty years. What distinguishes Dan from a lot of other thinkers is that he’s comfortable with the fact that figuring out the answer to that question isn’t always simple, and the answer isn’t always a straight line. This has made him one of the most creative and interesting people working in Information Architecture today.
Dan thinks these ideas are best understood through discussion and collaboration, so he created the IA Staycation, a workshop that includes both lectures and direct conversation with both Dan and Richard Saul Wurman. The workshop is unusual, in that it isn’t a simple “skill builder”, but instead brings us around to this deeper question Dan always asks: What is good? How would we know? How do we make that concept something we can use?
Read more“GPS at the scale of your living room” means that the location of every item in the environment is established, checked, and ongoingly mapped by sensors in devices including smartphones and smart speakers, and made available for incorporation into products and services. It’s not literally using global positioning satellites: it’s using data collected by sensors embedded in networked devices.
The advent of geo-spatial (GPS-like) technologies at livingroom scale shifts the conversation from an internet of things, to a matrix of emplacements. And it begs a corresponding shift in the focus of digital product designers from things to systems, and from spaces to places.
Read moreAs part of his work researching and writing Richard Saul Wurman’s biography, TUG co-founder Dan Klyn has been reviewing videos from previous RSW projects. This video was shot as part of the promotion of the 2nd edition of Information Anxiety, circa 2000.
Read moreTUG’s been fortunate in so many ways in the 8+ years we’ve been in business. Among the earliest and most substantial has to do with how and where we got our name…
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