Digital systems — such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and your bank’s website — are more than products or tools. Certainly they create contexts that also change the way we interact, think, understand, and act. In many ways, they function like places. In this talk at IxDA‘s Interaction ’18 conference, Jorge Arango gives designers of such “information environments” conceptual tools to help them created products and services that better serve our needs.
“Living in Information” with Jorge Arango
About Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango is a strategic designer and information architect. He has designed information environments for organizations that range in scope from developing–world nonprofits to Fortune 500 corporations. He is co–author (with Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville) of Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond (2015), the fourth edition of O’Reilly’s celebrated “polar bear” book. Jorge is also a former president of the Information Architecture Institute. In his upcoming book “Living in Information“, Jorge draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity. Jorge lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Source: Living in Information – Interaction 18 – 3—8 February 2018 • Lyon, France
