Information architecture is not solely created by professionals; user suggestions and innovations play a significant role.
Many of the best innovations originate from individual users who experiment with ideas.
Successful ideas often spread as others observe and replicate them.
My guest today is Peter Morville. Peter is a pioneer in the discipline of information architecture. Among many other distinctions, he co-authored with Lou Rosenfeld Information Architecture for the World-Wide Web, the classic O’Reilly “polar bear” book on the subject. This is Peter’s second appearance on The Informed Life podcast. I asked him back because I wanted to learn more about his recent call for practitioners to emancipate information architecture.