information architecture on a large scale
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The presentation I gave at IPSA monthly lunch meeting. Here are the notes: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajcrcqm6wdtk_24hrg74mdgTRANSCRIPT
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Information Architecture on a Large Scale
July 11, 2008Dimitri Glazkov
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Disclaimer
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1 hour?!
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THEhumansAREdead
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It’s a Losing Battle
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Embrace Organic Growth
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Purpose is King
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No Bible
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Still a Good Book
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IA?
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Gaetan Lee
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Architecture? Srsly?
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Organic Growth
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Dimitri’s OrganicGrowth (DOG)
Classification System
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Planning is Overrated
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greenpeace
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Pretty Topper
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Feisty Crop of Negligible Dietary Value
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Neck Bone Connects To The ...
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Organic != Evil
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Walraven
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Gaspa
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Randy Son of Robert
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Perfect Information Architecture
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Important Things
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Take Good Care of Select Few Pages
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Build Streets,Not Houses
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Wrote
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Modularize
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Falashad
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Build Solid Organic Infrastructure
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The Purpose
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A Ballad
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Each Chunk of Content
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Must Have a Purpose.
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Though Your User May Not Know
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What That Purpose Is,
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You Should.
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And If You Don’t Know,
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Then Let It Go.
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Chuck That Chunk of Content,
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Oh Yeah,
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Chuck-a-chuck It And Stop Your Whining,
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Yeah Baby.
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(harmonica solo)
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Optimize Against Adding Pages
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Simplify
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Good Luck
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