Gary Carlson and Bram Wessel on Enterprise Information Models
Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson briefly describe the basics of Enterprise Information Models at the Seattle Information Architecture Meetup.
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Sarah Barrett speaks at the SharePoint Symposium
People actually using the solution, adoption, is the most important factor in the success of a SharePoint project. On a very real level, it doesn’t matter how functional everything is if people refuse to use it. And they do refuse sometimes.
Gary Carlson Speaks on Governance at Taxonomy Bootcamp
Check out Gary Carlson’s talk “Putting the Go in Governance” from Taxonomy Boot Camp 2015
Gary Carlson Speaks on Organizational Readiness at Taxonomy Bootcamp 2014
The issue is rarely building the taxonomy itself, but the organizational readiness and alignment required to build and support that taxonomy.
Fixers of Big Messes
From umbrella topics like UX or Taxonomy to more specific terms like Enterprise Content Management or Pre-cart Findability, design comes in when someone has a big mess and they need help fixing it.
E-Commerce Lessons Learned
Gary Carlson and Bram Wessel recently spoke about lessons that Factor team members have learned through various e-Commerce engagements.
Essential Assessments for Designing Enterprise Taxonomy
Designing a taxonomy is the process of defining its structure. It details how different relationships will be used, formatting of the labels, and the attributes that will be associated with each term and relationship. The design process is also the right time to consider the governance and maintenance procedures for the taxonomy along with the technical implementation considerations.
Beyond the labels: The right taxonomy for your project
At the end of the day, taxonomies are a means to an end and are rarely valuable on their own. They’re the bridge in the conversation between a business and its customers, an information system and its users.
User Experience and Taxonomy Collaborations Promise Actionable Information Models
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2013 demonstrates how the User Experience discipline is helping taxonomists get better results for users. From design techniques to testing, these communities are learning, and growing, together.
Taxonomy Bootcamp: User Research for Better Information Modeling
In his Taxonomy Boot Camp talk, Bram Wessel focuses on how to expose the way diverse groups of users create mental models of an information space.