My guest today is my friend Abby Covert, also known as Abby the IA. Abby is a Senior Information Architect at Etsy. She wrote the book How to Make Sense of Any Mess, a wonderful primer on information architecture, and co-founded World IA Day. She’s also taught graduate design students and curated global conferences about design. She’s done many of these things remotely over the last decade, which makes her a great guide for how to collaborate in our new reality.

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Abby the IA (Abby Covert’s website)
Etsy
How To Make Sense of Any Mess, by Abby Covert
World Information Architecture Day
Fax machines
Melbourne, Florida
Rosenfeld Media
Advancing Research Conference
School of Visual Arts
Photo of Abby’s home setup
DesignOps Summit
The Museum of the Moving Image
Louis Rosenfeld
Zoom
Zoom Webinar
Slack
Cheryl Platz
Mural
Steinberg UR12
Herman Miller chairs
Opening sequence of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

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