In this four-minute video, Explaining IA, Dan Klyn gives a brief history of the field of Information Architecture beginning with Richard Saul Wurman.
Read moreA $10 Differentiation Between Architecture and Design
Your project is a cloth. Architecture makes cuts. Design makes the resulting pieces the best ones possible, solving problems toward a goal.
Read moreTeaching IA by Learning about Architecture
Dan Klyn is a practicing information architect, and teaches Information Architecture (IA) at the University of Michigan's School of Information.
Read moreInformation Architecture and Interaction Design
Part of a conversation between Dan Klyn and Matt Nish-Lapidus about how information architecture and interaction design are inseparable and inter-essential.
Read moreWho Makes Information Architecture Good?
If "the opposite of a great truth is also true," Dan Klyn wonders if we shouldn't be drawing on our own instincts for what is good information architecture.
Read moreSkirmishing With Ill-Defined and Wicked Problems
Dan Klyn discusses Peter Rowe's book Design Thinking and his assertion that most architecture work is set in motion against ill-defined or wicked problems.
Read moreUnderstanding Information Architecture
Dan Klyn explains information architecture as the interplay of meaning, arrangement, and rules for interaction.
Read more15 geometric properties of wholeness
Illustrations from the work of the architect and theorist Christopher Alexander: the fifteen geometric relationships that more often than not occur in structures that are whole, beautiful and alive.
Read moreThe circle that wanted to be a square
Dan Klyn provides illustrations of simple geometries to express the exploration of what is good in language and structure.
Read moreDan Klyn Interviewed By IA Pioneer Lou Rosenfield
A 2016 podcast discussing Dan Klyn’s path into information architecture, and his research of Richard Saul Wurman, and Christopher Alexander.
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