Interview with Thomas Vander Wal

Thomas_vanderInterview with Information Architect Thomas Vander Val

In this new episode you hear an interview with Thomas Vander Val, also from the IA Summit in Vancouver. Thomas was holding an interesting speech about “Tagging” and new trends in information architecture. At the end of the Summit I had a chance to talk to Thomas. Here it is…

Podcast of this Interview - 44:16 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_thomas_vander_wal.mp3

Interview Christina Wodtke and Harry Max

Christina_harryYour’re now listening to a new episode (from IA Voice) – it’s an interview with Christina Wodtke and Harry Max. We had a interesting talk down in the restaurant from the conference hotel of the IA Summit. And some answers were even answered by Christina’s baby which was also part of the interview as you will hear. Let’s hear all of it…

Podcast of this Interview - 34:19 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_christina_wodtke_and_harry_max.mp3

Christina Wodtke wrote the following book:

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Interview with Louis Rosenfeld

LouisInterview with Louis Rosenfeld - IA Author, publisher and one father of IA

The upcoming episode is another interview from the IA Summit in Vancouver. This time I’m talking with Louis Rosenfeld, one father of Information Architecture. Lou was talking here on a summit track about the subject: “IA: not just for the web anymore”. He is holding up Seminars for Corporations about the Content Silos and is working as a publisher. Let’s listen to Lou’s ideas right here …

Podcast of this Interview - 43:08 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_louis_rosenfeld.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:58 minute
- What's your motivation being at the summit?
02:02 minute - Is there something specific that attracts you this field?
03:52 minute - What do you see as your IA mission?
05:10 minute
- What part does IA play in your daily routine?
09:00 minute - IA in Business: Do IAs have to learn more business language?
11:20 minute - How to convince top management about the value of IA?
12:50 minute - IA new field - what if the client want's a semantic network?
15:45 minute - Are there leverages for IAs in increating semantic networks?
18:48 minute - Disolving content silos - how to deal with corporate strategies?
22:15 minute - Would you also do seminars on content silos in Europe?
22:55 minute - IA in Europe - what would your advice be for bigger corporations?
26:23 minute - IA in Healthcare: Where's the benefit for the healthcare sector?
32:25 minute - Considering target audiences in healthcare - ?
34:02 minute - Should corporations increase implementations of IA processes?
35:00 minute - Focus a little more allso on the I instead of only on the T?
36:35 minute - IA Trends - where is IA heading worldwide?

Further Information on Louis Rosenfeld

Interview with MAYA

MayaInterview with the Information Designers Aradna Goel and Paul Gould

In this episode you listen to an interview with Aradna Goel and Paul Gould from Maya. The two of them presented some outstanding projects which have a lot to do with the future of IA that Peter Morville calls the merging of the digital and the physical world. Listen to some of their ideas right here in the interview…

(Note: I'm sorry, at some points my questions are way too long
[*] = better skip my too long questioning)

Podcast of this Interview - 40:26 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_maya_design.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
01:03 minute
- What are your main reasons for being at the IA summit?
03:26 minute - How do you define yourself - IAs?
05:42 minute - "IA brings in the layer of logic..."
06:14 minute - IA title is not necessary in order to be one
08:04 minute - [*] ...Talking about the great MAYA deliverables/ case study
09:30 minute - [*] ...Going into User Experience
10:10 minute - Talking user classification and information levels
14:12 minute - Understanding the users and getting clients to that thinking
17:11 minute - Where's the leverage to tell the client the right way?
18:40 minute - When asking clients about customers...
19:48 minute - Does it also have to do with your philosophy at MAYA?
23:17 minute - Great benefit in looking at something from different views
23:56 minute - Talking about healthcare project examples
27:42 minute - Comparing IT infrastructure in a hospital with the physical
28:40 minute - where IA fits really in the picture...
31:28 minute - Question on a interesting new way of persona deliverable
35:00 minute - Where do you see IA in the future?

Further Information on the MAYA projects and the case study mention during the interview:
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Interview with Peter Boersma

Peter_1Interview with the Information Architect Peter Boersma

This episode is an interview with Peter Boersma, also at the IA Summit. Peter is an important Information Architect in the Netherlands. He strongly supports the IA community there and created some IA deliverables already which communicate the field of Information Architecture to the   Business World quite well. Listen to his thoughts right here in the interview…

Podcast of this Interview - 19:08 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_peter_boersma.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

01:01 minunte - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:49 minunte - Can you tell us something about yourself as an IA?
03:27 minunte - How do you define IA for yourself?
04:05 minunte - Experience Designer sounds interesting as a job title?
04:30 minunte - How do you sell IA to a potential client?
05:25 minunte
- How can IA support real business workflow?
06:45 minunte - In which context is IA very strong/less relevant?
08:22 minunte - Business strategies and selling?
08:53 minunte - Comparison of US and Europe?
10:58 minunte
- How can the Europeans catch up with the US?
12:08 minunte - Where's the benefit for the healthcare in IA?
13:37 minunte - How can Intranets of Healthcare companies be optimised with IA?
14:55 minunte - What methods shouldn't be missing in a professional IA project?
16:35 minunte - In your opinion, where is IA heading - especially in Europe?

Further Information on Peter Boersma

Interview with Jesse James Garrett

Jesse

Interview with Jesse James Garrett - IA Author and one inventor of AJAX

Please enjoy the upcoming interview with Jesse James Garrett at the IA Summit. Jesse is the famous author of the IA book “The elements of User Experience“, a founder of Adaptive Path and he created the definition of AJAX.
It took me about three days to get him for this interview. But finally he gave some quite interesting answers. - Here they are …

Podcast of this Interview - 28:36 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_jesse_james_garrett.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

00:52 minute - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:39 minute - something specific that attracts you to IA?
03:28 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
05:15 minute - So IA is bridging also the digital and the physical?
05:05 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
07:46 minute - so do innovations in KM needs bottom-up IA?
08:39 minute - What are your experiences with buying in?
10:00 minute - Where does IA have strong leverage?
12:15 minute - Companies which to create semantic networks?
13:56 minute - Context Europe- advice for bigger corporations about IA?
15:40 minute - Where's the benefit for the healthcare sector in IA?
17:37 minute - Considering target audiences in Healthcare?
19:22 minute - Some explantions about the methods in JJG's famous book?
24:57 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Jesse James Garrett:

Interview with Peter Morville

PeterInterview with Peter Morville - IA Author and one father of IA

Enjoy this upcoming interview with Peter Morville. Peter is one Father of IA, Author of the books "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" and "Ambient Findability", and President of Semantic Studios.
I was very happy that he gave me this interview for all our listeners since it contains some very forward thinking answers. - Here they are…

Podcast of this Interview - 28:14 minutes

Podcast-Link
ia_voice_interview_peter_morville.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

00:52 minute - Peter, your main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:55 minute - How about People saying you are the father of IA?
03:03 minute - Something specific that attracts you to this field?
04:23 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
06:36 minute - How to sell IA to a potential client?
08:17 minute - ...are you also acting then as a consultant?
09:10 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
10:18 minute - How to communicate the importance of controlled vocabularies..?
11:35 minute - What to tell companies...to create semantic networks?
14:38 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn't understand tagging?
17:10 minute - IA in US and Europe?
18:57 minute - How can the Europeans can catch up with the US?
19:38 minute - IA - where's the benefit for the healthcare sector?
21:29 minute - Can IA help to take differences in Healthcare markets...?
23:00 minute - IA in Healthcare Knowledge Management Applications?
24:30 minute - Should corporations increase the implementations of IA processes?
25:53 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Peter Morville

Interview with Geoff Froh

Goeff3Interview with the Information Architect Geoff Froh

Please enjoy the upcoming interview with Geoff Froh. Geoff is an IA and Tech Director of a large Archive Digital Video and a master student in the University of Washington in the Information school.
I met Geoff at the IA Summit In a very interesting preconference seminar with the title “  Writing Business Requirements for Information Architects”. Let’s hear Geoff …

Podcast of this Interview - 18:36 minutes

Podcast-Link

ia_voice_interview_geoff_froh.mp3

Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:52 minute - Main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:20 minute - Since when working as an Information Architect?
02:26 minute - Something specific that attracts you to this field?
02:45 minute - How to sell IA to a potential client?
03:40 minute - Do IAs have to learn more business language?
04:30 minute - In which context do you see IA?
05:40 minute - Strong leverage of IA(analysis, strategic, conceptional)?
06:30 minute - IA in US and Europe?
08:57 minute - IA - where's the benefit for the healthcare sector?
10:32 minute - IA in Healthcare Knowledge Management Applications?
12:48 minute - Should corporations increase IA processes and methodologies?
14:12 minute - What methods shouldn't be missing in an IA project?
15:50 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?
17:05 minute - Any new challenges?

Interview with Dr David Weinberger

DavidInterview with the Author and Information Philosoph Dr. David Weinberger

In this episode – I have an interview with Dr. David Weinberger who was holding the keynote speech at the IA Summit 2006 about some new ways of thinking in Information Architecture. He was also holding a speach at the Ars Electronica with the title “When things aren’t What They Are“.
We talked about them here in the interview. And despite he claims that he doesn't see himself as an IA he has

Podcast-Link - 27:24 minutes

ia_voice_interview_dr_david_weinberger.mp3

Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:55 minute - Reasons for being at the IA Summit?
02:10 minute - What do you see as your basic "IA"mission?
03:55 minute - ...Why we organise in hierarchical trees...
05:53 minute - Are we witnessing the dissolving of hierarchies?
07:22 minute - Is information defined in a new philisophic way now?
14:00 minute - What would you tell companies to create semantic networks..?
14:28 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn't understand tagging?
15:35 minute - Can tagging creat individual taxinomies?
17:37 minute - Tag sreams and tag clouds?
19:40 minute - IA in Healthcare Business?
20:42 minute - ...how I would sneek into tagging system (knowlede management)
23:06 minute - Where is IA heading in your opinion?

Further Information on Dr David Weinberger