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Explaining Information Architecture

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn

In this four-minute video, Explaining IA, Dan Klyn gives a brief history of the field of Information Architecture beginning with Richard Saul Wurman.

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A $10 Differentiation Between Architecture and Design

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn
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Your project is a cloth. Architecture makes cuts. Design makes the resulting pieces the best ones possible, solving problems toward a goal.

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Teaching IA by Learning about Architecture

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn

Dan Klyn is a practicing information architect, and teaches Information Architecture (IA) at the University of Michigan's School of Information.

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Information Architecture and Interaction Design

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn

Part of a conversation between Dan Klyn and Matt Nish-Lapidus about how information architecture and interaction design are inseparable and inter-essential.

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Who Makes Information Architecture Good?

November 9, 2019 The Understanding Group

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.

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Skirmishing With Ill-Defined and Wicked Problems

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn

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.

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Understanding Information Architecture

November 9, 2019 Dan Klyn

Dan Klyn explains information architecture as the interplay of meaning, arrangement, and rules for interaction.

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15 geometric properties of wholeness

October 1, 2018 Dan Klyn

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.

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The circle that wanted to be a square

April 14, 2016 Dan Klyn

Dan Klyn provides illustrations of simple geometries to express the exploration of what is good in language and structure.

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Dan Klyn Interviewed By IA Pioneer Lou Rosenfield

March 24, 2016 Dan Klyn

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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