the ux remix of the guggenheim wiad2016

The UX Remix of

The Guggenheim Museum

Personalities, Politics, Art & Design

Jared Caponi @jaredac

WORLD IA DAY 2016

The Guggenheim

Requisite Who Am I? Slide

President, Owner of Exploded Map Inc. Information Architect User Experience Consultant I live and work in Brooklyn, NY @jaredac

How I got here

Right here

Storm King Mountain

Storm King Arts Center

www.stormking.org

Storm King Arts Center

College

Museology

The Louvre

Experience Design

Experience/Interaction

UsersDevices with

InterfacesInteraction Design

Design in-between


Users Devices with Interfaces

Interaction DesignDesign in-between

ContentInformation

Experience Design

Museum Experience Design


Visitors MuseumsInteraction Design

Design in-between

Actually Its More like this

WORLD


Content

Devices with Interfaces

Humans

Information


Visitors

Museums

WORLD

Actually Its More like this

Information Context

Start-up Story

Hilla Rebay: Founder/Visionary

Hilla Rebay: Networker

Hilla Rebay: Artist

The Garage

The Temporary Space

A wing at the Met isnt cool.

You know whats cool?

Your Own Frickin Museum

The Foundation

Frank LLoyd Wright

Simpatico

Wright Gets this:


Visitors

Museums

Prevailing Conventional Wisdom

Angled Walls

The Dome

The Rotunda

Project gets hit by a bus

Board Takes over

James Sweeney

Johnson & Johnson Sweeney

FLW Dies

Opening day October 1959

Whitewashed Interior

Propped paintings on angled walls

Propped paintings on angled walls

[The experience] is a battle between Art and Museum in which neither wins but both are badly maimed

John Cannaday NY Times Art Critic

Content Problems

Abby Covert

Ambiguity costs clarity; exactitude costs flexibility

@abbytheia

Ambiguous, Unclear Flexible(But not sympathetic)

Exact, Clear InflexibleSympathetic

Barnett Newman

Jackson Pollock

Mark Rothko

The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships,

then you miss the point!

Constraints Create Opportunities

Alexander Calder

Jenny Holzer

James Turrell

Evolution

Acquisitions

Repairs

Addition

FLW Sketch 1943

Thomas Krens

Expansion

Too Far?

Definitely Too Far

Expansion

What have we learned?

Build Alliances

Dont be too precious

Structure is more important than particulars

Context Matters

Be wary of mission creep

Re-Use What Works

Challenge Patterns

Embrace Your Constraints

Have a relationship with your information space

Thank You Very Much

[email protected] @jaredac