Joe Lamantia, Author at Boxes and Arrows

Author: Joe Lamantia

Joe Lamantia has been an active member and thought leader in the information architecture and user experience fields since 1996. A veteran architect, consultant, leader, and designer, Joe has worked successfully in a wide variety of industries and settings including: for-profit and non-profit organizations, startups, interactive agencies, consulting houses, system integrators, product companies, and social media. In 2000, he became an entrepreneur and started his own company.

Joe is the creator of the leading freely available tool for card sort analysis; a frequent writer and speaker on future directions in user experience, and the intersection of business, culture, design, and systems thinking; and author of the IA Building Blocks framework for portals and tile-based user experiences.

Joe is currently based in Amsterdam. He tweets as @moJoe and blogs at JoeLamantia.com.

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Articles by this author:

The Challenge of Dashboards and Portals

Posted by Joe Lamantia

Can components come to the rescue for executive dashboards? Much like IKEA uses interchangeable islands, counters, and cupboards to create a custom kitchen, by Joe Lamantia shows how it’s possible to use a modular approach for executive dashboards.

August 26, 2003 Process and Methods

Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template

Posted by Joe Lamantia

This article explains how to quickly derive easily-read, quantitative results from a card-sort activity by entering data into a spreadsheet template that is adaptable to any set of cards and categories.