Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Liz Danzico

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Liz Danzico is equal parts information architect, usability analyst, and editor. With nearly ten years of experience as a user experience professional, she makes information useful, usable, and delightful for websites of all shapes and sizes.

Liz has organized information for sites across a variety of industries, including retail, publishing, media and entertainment, nonprofit, and financial services. She has overseen the editorial process for Rosenfeld Media, a publisher of user experience books, and is editor emeritus for Boxes and Arrows.

Liz is a user experience consultant and chair of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She’s on the advisory board of The Information Architecture Institute and is board officer for AIGA/NY, the professional association for design. In the past, Liz directed experience strategy for AIGA, where she was responsible for the national web presence and all online and New Riders publications. Before that, she directed the information architecture teams at Barnes & Noble.com and Razorfish New York.

Stories written by Liz Danzico

• The Devil's in the Wireframes [7 comments]
• What I Learned From Television [1 comments]
• Ambient Findability: Talking with Peter Morville [3 comments]
• Under the Boxes-and-Arrows hood [31 comments]
• Lou Rosenfeld Eats his own Dog Food [2 comments]
• Dogmas Are Meant to be Broken: An Interview with Eric Reiss [7 comments]
• From Data to Wisdom: An Interview with Paco Underhill [6 comments]
• The Line Between Clarity and Chaos [9 comments]
• Long Live the User (Persona): Talking with Steve Mulder [5 comments]
• House styleguide [ comments]
• IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin [0 comments]

Comments made by Liz Danzico

• Chris, the layering idea you suggest is much like the approa… [0 points]
• The first certainly wasn't, but the second (assuming you mea… [0 points]
• Getting rid of the drek does, indeed, include catching typos… [2 points]
• Neat. You mention Illustrator and InDesign. Would your solut… [0 points]
• Hi Nick - Thanks so much for your comments. bq. _The five… [0 points]
• After reading this post, I wondered if we should think about… [0 points]
• Patrick, it would be interesting to continue thinking throug… [1 points]
• Matt - I'm going to remove this comment then, per your resci… [0 points]
• I deleted your other "suggestion" Matt. Sorry for the confus… [0 points]
• Ankur: This seems interesting. You might also consider what … [-1 points]
• Hi Andre - I've just fixed the email issue--thanks for poin… [0 points]
• This is interesting -- certainly wayfinding systems can teac… [0 points]
• Hi Ross - The process is generally this: You write a story… [0 points]
• Great to hear Michael! There are three or four more in the q… [-1 points]