The Informed Life

Léonie Watson is an accessibility engineer, W3C director, technology writer, and speaker. She’s director at TetraLogical, a consultancy focused on accessibility for emerging and existing technologies. In this conversation, we focus on the role of accessibility in producing experiences that work better for everybody.

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• Léonie Watson
• Léonie Watson - LinkedIn
• Léonie @[email protected] (@LeonieWatson) / Twitter
• Léonie Watson (@[email protected]) - Front-End Social
• TetraLogical
• Blog - TetraLogical
• Screen reader - Wikipedia

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David Rose is an entrepreneur, MIT lecturer, author, and pioneer in ambient computing. Among other institutions, his work has been featured in MoMA, The New York Times, WIRED, The Economist, and The Daily Show. He’s the author of two books: Enchanted Objects and his latest, SuperSight, which is the subject of our conversation.

Show notes

• David Rose - Enchanted Objects
• David L. Rose - Wikipedia
• David Rose - LinkedIn
• supersight.world
• SuperSight: What Augmented Reality Means for Our Lives, Our Work, and the Way We Imagine the Future by David Rose
• Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology by David Rose
• Home Outside
• Clearwater
• Ambient Orb
• Google Glass - Wikipedia)
• Meta Quest Pro)
• IKEA Place on the App Store
• ARtillery Intelligence
• lululemon Studio and the MIRROR
• CityScope
• Lumen World
• Handheld projector - Wikipedia (pico projectors) 
• Find a National Park Service Map - GIS, Cartography & Mapping (U.S. National Park Service)
• Nreal
• Freedom Boat Club
• Candela per square metre - Wikipedia (nit)
• Audi introduces headlights that can project images with its electric SUVs - Electrek
• Fireflies.ai
• inCitu
• Figma
• Miro
• Reality Composer on the App Store
• Adobe Aero
• Sketchfab
• TurboSquid
• Warby Parker
• Beat Saber

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Marcia Bates is Professor Emerita in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. Over the course of a long career in both consulting and academia, Dr. Bates produced seminal work in user-centered information system design. Her paper on “berrypicking” as a user search strategy has been widely cited and is considered a foundational text in the field. In this conversation, we discuss search systems.

Transcript
https://theinformed.life/2023/01/01/episode-104-marcia-bates-on-search-systems/

Show notes

• Marcia J. Bates Home Page
• Marcia J. Bates - Wikipedia
• UCLA Department of Information Studies
• The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques
• Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume I
• Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume II
• Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume III
• The Contemporary Thesaurus of Search Terms and Synonyms: A Guide for Natural Language Computer Searching, Second Edition, by Sarah Knapp
• Boolean algebra - Wikipedia
• Carol Kuhlthau - Wikipedia
• U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Scott Jenson has done strategic UX design work for some of tech’s most important companies, including Apple and Google. Now he’s semi-retired and focused on improving the experience of using open source software. In this conversation, we talk about what’s different about open source, how design can make it better, and how designers can benefit from participating in open source projects.

Transcript
https://theinformed.life/2022/12/18/episode-103-scott-jenson-on-open-source/

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• Scott Jenson
• Scott Jenson (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
• Apple Newton - Wikipedia
• Symbian - Wikipedia
• Google Chrome
• Android
• Frog Design
• GitHub
• UX Showcase - GitLab
• 1984 by George Orwell
• AAA (video game industry) - Wikipedia
• Blender
• LAMP (software bundle) - Wikipedia
• Emacs - Wikipedia
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
• Externality - Wikipedia
• HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald
• Edward Tufte
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• Interaction Design Association – IxDA
• Eternal September - Wikipedia
• Jeff Jarvis - Wikipedia
• Nextdoor
• Elestio
• Penpot
• Red Hat
• Home Assistant
• Ghost

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Amy Jiménez Márquez is Vice President of Experience Design at Zillow. Previously, she led design teams at Amazon and Compass. In this conversation, we focus on the role of information architecture in managing digital experiences at scale, with a particular focus on research and modeling.

Transcript
https://theinformed.life/2022/12/03/episode-102-amy-jimenez-marquez/

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• Amy Jiménez Márquez - LinkedIn
• Amy Jiménez Márquez (@amymarquez) / Twitter
• Zillow
• Amazon Alexa
• Myers–Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia
• Sophia Prater
• Object Oriented UX
• Sophia Prater on Object Oriented UX – The Informed Life
• Designing Connected Content: Plan and Model Digital Products for Today and Tomorrow by Carrie Hane and Mike Atherton
• Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design by Jeff Johnson and Austin Henderson
• Mural
• Content management system (CMS) - Wikipedia
• Boxes and Arrows
• Christina Wodtke - Wikipedia
• Alesha Arp - LinkedIn

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Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson are the founders of Factor, an information architecture and experience design consultancy. In this conversation, we discuss their practice of helping organizations gain alignment by defining the information layer that underpins their digital systems.

Transcript
https://theinformed.life/2022/11/20/episode-101-bram-wessel-gary-carlson/

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• Bram Wessel - LinkedIn
• Gary Carlson - LinkedIn
• Factor
• Factor (@factorfirm) - Twitter
• Mobile virtual network operator - Wikipedia
• REI
• Backcountry
• Customer relationship management - Wikipedia
• Enterprise resource planning - Wikipedia
• Content management system - Wikipedia
• Product information management - Wikipedia
• Digital asset management - Wikipedia
• Rosenfeld Media
• KMWorld 2022
• Taxonomy Boot Camp 2022
• IAC: Information Architecture conference

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This is episode 100 of The Informed Life podcast. To celebrate, I decided to dedicate it to you, the show’s listeners. So today, I don’t have a guest. Instead, I will answer questions sent by listeners of the show.

Transcript
https://theinformed.life/2022/11/06/episode-100-listener-questions/

Show notes

• IA: WTF? workshop
• Vinish Garg’s question on LinkedIn
• Nigel Rawlins’s question on Twitter
• Digoamaje Refiloe Digoamaye’s question on Twitter
• Ruben Stegbauer’s question on LinkedIn
• Gall’s Law
• Roam Research
• Obsidian
• Technology adoption lifecycle
• DALL-E
• Stable Diffusion
• Elicit

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Listener questions have been lightly edited for clarity. See links to the original questions in the show notes.

Mark Bernstein is chief scientist of Eastgate Systems, Inc. He’s been writing hypertexts and developing hypertext authoring software since the late 1980s. Mark is the creator of Tinderbox and other tools for thinking that “harness the power of the link.” In this conversation, we discuss thinking through connected notes.

Show notes

• Mark Bernstein
• Eastgate Systems
• Tinderbox
• The Tinderbox Way, Third Edition by Mark Bernstein
• Tinderbox Forum
• NAKAKOJI, Kumiyo
• Roger Ebert
• Cathy Marshall
• Xerox PARC
• The Digital Nature of Gothic by Lars Spuybroek

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Alice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect, a software tool that helps knowledge creators focus and connect. Alice’s background is in cognitive neuroscience and machine learning. In this conversation, we explore how tools for thought such as re:collect can help augment our thinking.

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• Alice Albrecht (LinkedIn)
• re:collect
• @recollect_ai (Twitter)
• RENDER(); Tools for Thinking conference
• Alice’s re:collect demo at the RENDER() conference (Vimeo)
• Instapaper
• Pocket
• Obsidian
• Roam Research
• Every
• Readwise
• Substack
• GPT-3
• Stable Diffusion

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Rob Ashton is a writer who focuses on the science of how the things we read and write influence what we think and do. Rob founded the global learning company Emphasis, and over the last six years, he’s focused on researching the science of reading and writing, ranging from cognitive and social neuroscience to behavioral and neuroeconomics. In this conversation, we discuss how science can make us more effective readers and writers.

Show notes

• Rob Ashton
• Emphasis
• Rob’s Silent Influence course
• Tali Sharot
• The span of the effective stimulus during a fixation in reading by George W. McConkie & Keith Rayner 
• Saccade
• Predictive coding
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• Familiarity heuristic
• Affect heuristic

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