Abby Covert is an information architect, writer, and community organizer. Abby served as President of IA Institute, co-chair of IA Summit, and Executive Producer of IDEA. She is a founding faculty member of the School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design program, Design Operations Summit and, Advancing Research Conference. She invented World IA Day, bringing IA education to thousands in local communities annually. Abby wrote, “How to Make Sense of Any Mess” a book teaching IA to everybody of which we talk about today. 

Additionally, we discuss: 

• A high-level introduction to information architecture
• Defining Good on your project
• Three deceptively simple things for creating a good structure 
• And the power of creating a shared vocabulary in building solutions that scale

Resources
👉 How to Make Sense of Any Mess (book):
👉 Mental Models (book) 

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