Most-Current Archives

• The Book: Understanding Context.
• What’s on the Blog: Posts about Talks & Writings shared on Inkblurt.
• Presentations Shared Online: Slideshare and  Speakerdeck.

Older Listings of Various Artifacts …

I’m keeping this here for now, though I haven’t gone to the trouble to update it in a while.

Presentations

Users Don’t Have Goals
February 2012 – Interaction12, Dublin, Ireland

The Context Problem – Updated, Short Version
November 2011 & January 2012 – WebVisions, Atlanta & NYC

A Few Thoughts on Architecture & IA Practice
March 2011 – IA Summit, Denver, CO

This is Your Brain on Design
April 2010 – IA Summit, Phoenix, AZ

The Function of Context for IA: IAI “Beyond Findability” Workshop
March, 2009 – IA Summit, Memphis TN

You Are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space & the Context Problem
March, 2009 – IA Summit, Memphis TN
October, 2008 – IDEA Conference (previous version)

Linkosophy: Explaining Information Architecture
April, 2008 – IA Summit, Miami FL (Closing Keynote)

UX Design as Communities of Practice
August, 2007 UX Week, Washington, DC PDF (3 MB)

Architectures for Conversation II
April, 2007 Philly CHI

The Rise of Letting Go: How the Net Generation can teach us to lose control and like it
April, 2007 DigitalNow, Orlando FL

Architectures for Conversation: What Communities of Practice Can Mean for IA
March, 2007 Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas

Clues to the Future: What the Users of Tomorrow are Teaching Us Today
March, 2006 Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver — PDF (13MB)

Articles

• Links, Maps and Habitats: for the book Pervasive Information Architecture.
• The Story is the Thing: for the UX Storytellers e-book.
• Context Management for the book “Designing Social Interfaces”
• Article: The Machineries of Context (PDF) for the inaugural issue of the Journal of Information Architecture. Spring 2009.
• Article: Personas and the Role of Design Documentation February 2008, Boxes and Arrows.
• Article: We Live Here: Games, Third Places and the Information Architecture of the Future August/September 2006 ASIS&T Bulletin, special Information Architecture edition.
• Seminar Review: My writeup for UX Matters about the Creating Conceptual Comics Workshop at the 2006 IA Summit.
• Book Review: Small Pieces, Big Thoughts
• Book Review: Observing the User Experience

Creative Writing

I’ve written and published creative pieces in various publications, most of them offline literary journals. I put some on their own post: A Few Poems.

A couple of others have ended up on the Web
The Harrow: Four Pauses
Stirring: Life Insurance.

Miscellaneous Flotsam

• That wacky Manifesto of 25 Theses (also on my site here)
• Leadership Seminar for the IAI in 2003
• I am a tool: my message at the panel I was in at the 2003 IA Summit