Lisa Maria Marquis - The Harm Hiding in Our Information Architectures

2021-10-26

Lisa Maria Marquis encourages us to be better designers by thinking more deeply about the decisions we’re making and their potential for harm. Highlights include: ⭐ What are some harmful IA decisions that we're making?⭐ Why is Information Architecture undervalued and under-practiced?⭐ How do we actively build a safe and trusting relationship with users?⭐ Why do gender categories cause some people to lose their minds?⭐ Is it possible for us to completely avoid our work causing harm?

Lisa Maria Marquis encourages us to be better designers by thinking more deeply about the decisions we’re making and their potential for harm.

Highlights include:

⭐ What are some harmful IA decisions that we're making?
⭐ Why is Information Architecture undervalued and under-practiced?
⭐ How do we actively build a safe and trusting relationship with users?
⭐ Why do gender categories cause some people to lose their minds?
⭐ Is it possible for us to completely avoid our work causing harm?

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Who is Lisa Maria Marquis?

Lisa is the Principal of The Future is Like Pie, an independent Information Architecture and Content Strategy consultancy that’s on a mission to make it easier for people to find, understand, and act on information on the web.

Through her consultancy, Lisa regularly works with well-known agencies, such as Happy Cog and Brain Traffic. She also works directly with organisations such as Autodesk, the University of California, and Egghead.io.

Lisa is also the author of Everyday Information Architecture, an amazing book that shows you how to leverage the principles and practices of IA, and the Managing Editor of A Book Apart, a highly respected publisher of books for designers, developers and content creators.

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Find Lisa here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redsesame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redsesame/
Website: https://thefutureislikepie.com/

Lisa’s book:

Everyday Information Architecture:
https://abookapart.com/products/everyday-information-architecture

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