I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. Following are selected questions I answered in December. What are the best websites to put my UI/UX portfolio, both personally and professionally? Answered December 31, 2017 As … Read more
As a Wikipedian who has been increasingly involved with editathons in New York City since completing my MLIS degree at Pratt Institute School of Information, I have been interested in creating bridges between the Wikipedia and IA communities. Thanks to a Wikimedia Foundation TPS grant, I was able to represent Wikipedia at the 2016 IA … Read more
I am reading and rereading the discussion/controversy/hype/reporting on Wikipedia’s knowledge engine and wondering exactly what about it should be construed as a direct competitor to Google. Yes. An unbiased, independent, not tied to corporate interests search engine, but of what content? Wikipedia’s, most likely. Surely not all of the internet, since their own data and … Read more
I am currently working on developing a WikiProject for Information Architecture at Wikipedia. I welcome participation from interested Wikipedians, with or without editing experience. Please view my IA Wikipedia Editathon tutorial and resource guide which I presented as an interactive session of the Information Architecture Summit, on April 22-26 in Minneapolis. ASIS&T Bulletin published my … Read more
I am very happy to announce that I will be presenting an Information Architecture Wikipedia Editathon as an interactive session of the Information Architecture Summit, on April 22-26 in Minneapolis. As an amateur IA historian and keeper of many things IAI for several years, I have decided to go one step further and present my … Read more