The Honeycomb Story

Since writing user experience design a few years back, I've enjoyed the assorted alternate versions of my original design honeycomb, and I even joined in the fun this year with my own unfinished user experience strategy honeycomb.

Apparently, Will Evans was so upset by the hole, he added "story" (first suggested by Greg Corrin) to make it whole (see above). Thanks Will!

User Experience Strategy

I've published a new Semantics article about user experience strategy, with a new diagram to complement the original honeycomb:

I'm considering writing a new book that strangely connects user experience strategy and futures studies. Sound interesting? Any suggestions? Thanks!

Laughing at the CIO

Bob Boiko, author of the Content Management Bible, has written a short but powerful modern-day fable about IT leadership entitled Laughing at the CIO.

I enjoyed the book enough to provide cover blurbs. Here's one they didn't use:

In Laughing at the CIO, there is no such thing as the intranet, and neither emperor nor elephant wear clothes. This revealing parable about information strategy is required reading for executives, managers, and anyone else who would prefer not to find themselves indecently exposed.

Disclosure: I'm honored to be a member of Bob's circle of trust.

Strange Connections

This short video provocation by Clay Shirky (delivered at Supernova 2007) is about enduring love, and it's well worth watching.

Remix the Polar Bear

During my visit to Barcelona, I invited my workshop participants to define a strategy or approach to information architecture that is uniquely Spanish.

Jordi Sánchez rose to the challenge with a couple of covers, one of which I've selected for the remixpolarbear collection on Flickr (for now, try here).

This all started with the infamous cow talk in which Peter Bogaards, the man behind InfoDesign, described a European information architecture strategy.

Jorge Arango picked up the torch during our retreat in Chile with his ant cover, a symbol for social information architecture and the value(s) of deep context.

Which brings us back to Barcelona with questions. What is the meaning of the Picasso polar bear? What is the Spanish strategy? Is it the art of branding? And, which country will be next?

Feel free to upload your version to Flickr, tag it with remixpolarbear (for now, see here) and explain your country's unique contribution to information architecture strategy and practice. Just don't tell the folks at O'Reilly. Thanks!

Strange Connections

My amazing translator, Noriyo Asano, informed me today that the Japanese edition of Ambient Findability is headed into its fifth printing in just over a year.

Library Camp NYC looks like a great unconference.

According to Brad, John Wilson is running a guerilla campaign to find himself. Seth thinks it's silly. Easy for him to say.

Remix the O'Reilly animals with QOOP. We love our polar bear mugs!