Sensemaking through Information Architecture

THE SENSE-MAKING FRAGRANCEBuilding relationship and storytelling through information architecture

Luca Rosati@lucarosati

Andrea Resmini @resmini

Pensare il mondo come un insieme di oggetti sembra funzionare sempre meno. Un oggetto esiste come nodo di un insieme di relazioni.

– Carlo Rovelli

Commodity

Good

Service

UXDifferentiated

Undifferentiated

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petit

ive

posi

tion

PricingMarket Premium

Relevant

Irrelevant

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eeds

Adapted from Pine II & Gilmore, 2011

Product Experience

An example

wine

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Again

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Product

Experience

This is an experience…

…and this an experience parody

UX is a process

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…and a story

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Parents do not take their kids to Walt Disney World only for the venue itself but rather to make the shared experience part of family conversations

– Pine II & Gilmore

IA is the connector

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Correlation is the capability of IA to suggest relevant connections among pieces of information, services, goods.

external =cross-channel

internal = single-channel

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e ‘l correlar m’è dolce in questo mare

Tools

metadata, classification

ThIA

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journey maps

James Buckhouse, Story Maphttps://medium.com/design-story/story-map-3cc64033128e

THE SENSE-MAKING FRAGRANCEBuilding relationship and storytelling through information architecture