Life is full of choices, and making these choices seems more difficult each day. Boxes and Arrows interviews Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, to dig into these decisions—when we make them and when we don’t.
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Notes from the IA Retreat in Chile
2006 brought us a refreshing version of the annual information architecture retreat. Here we’ve collected some testimonies from what happened that Noveber weekend in Santa Cruz, Chile.
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Still need a holiday gift for your favorite designer or writer? Current and former Boxes and Arrows staff talk about books that have thrilled them recently, as well as books they continue to go back to year after year.
Continue readingThe Challenge of Dashboards and Portals
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.
Continue readingEnterprise Information Architecture: A Semantic and Organizational Foundation
People disagree on what happens when IAs grow up, but Tom Reamy knows. He offers a foundation for information architecture as it advances, grappling with problems across the enterprise.
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