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How to Make Sense of Any Mess
How To Make Sense Of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody by Abby Covert –
from Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information .
from Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
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- We are living in a world exploding with information, but how do we find what is relevant to us at the time that we need it? I believe that good information architecture is key to helping us navigate through the mountains of data and information we have created for ourselves.
from Information And Information Architecture: The BIG Picture — Smashing Magazine by Carrie Webster
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- It’s about how we can naturally contextualize information that grows exponentially, how we can create tools that enable us easily organize the information we collected into meaningful structures, how we can provide a space for people to think and imagine more effectively, how we can bridge the gap between thinking and creating, how we can encourage... See more
from My Vision: A New City by Alan Chan
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- If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of va... See more
from Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags by Clay Shirky
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