Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Fred Leise

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Having leapt from the sedate world of consulting to the wilds of entrepreneurship, Fred is a co-founder of KMS Group, Inc., developers of Intuitect Professional (www.intuitect.com), an integrated toolset for information architects and user experience designers. For KMS, he serves as Vice President, Methodology and Product Strategy.

Fred is also owner and principal of
ContextualAnalysis, LLC, providing consulting services in the areas of taxonomy and controlled vocabulary design, user experience design, and website and back-of-book indexing.

He trained as an information architect at Argus Associates and has worked with such clients as Harpo, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, LookSmart.com, Hewlett-Packard and PeopleSoft, Inc.

Stories written by Fred Leise

• Improving Usability with a Website Index [4 comments]
• All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies [17 comments]
• What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? [14 comments]
• Creating a Controlled Vocabulary [3 comments]
• Synonym Rings and Authority Files [2 comments]
• Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus [6 comments]
• Content Analysis Heuristics [9 comments]

Comments made by Fred Leise

• Nice article. Here's another resource: The American Society … [1 points]
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