Presented at 2007 IA Summit. Home organization can be used as a metaphor for the practice of information architecture. This presentation uses my grandmother and her home as lens through which we can examine this comparison.

1. My Grandmother the Information Architect: The IA of Everyday Life Hallie Wilfert halliewilfert @ gmail.com

2. Meet my grandmother

3. Meet my grandmother

4. Meet my grandmother

5. IA & Home Organization

6. Methodology

10. Content Inventories

11. Lesson: Take time to do things right and you will not have to do them again ...not for a while, anyway

12. The Christmas Tree

13. Lesson: There's space for everything as long as everything is labeled clearly

14. Lesson: Give items enough space and make what is going on as transparent as possible

16. In a different household…

17. Grandma’s Junk Drawer

18. My Junk Drawer

19. Grandma vs. Hallie

20. Card Sorting

21. Grandma says, “ Don’t look in the den, nothing’s in it’s place. I mean I have everything in groupings, but nothing is where it should be yet.” Card Sorting

22. Card Sorting

23. Warning: Sometimes, even the best IA gets in too deep

24. Warning: Sometimes, even the best IA gets in too deep

36. What does this make you? A NAG!

40. IA in magazines

42. IA in magazines

43. IA in magazines

44. IA in stores

45. IA in stores

46. IA in books