Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Joe Lamantia

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Joe Lamantia has been an active member and thought leader in the information architecture and user experience fields since 1996. A veteran architect, consultant, leader, and designer, Joe has worked successfully in a wide variety of industries and settings including: for-profit and non-profit organizations, startups, interactive agencies, consulting houses, system integrators, product companies, and social media. In 2000, he became an entrepreneur and started his own company.

Joe is the creator of the leading freely available tool for card sort analysis; a frequent writer and speaker on future directions in user experience, and the intersection of business, culture, design, and systems thinking; and author of the IA Building Blocks framework for portals and tile-based user experiences.

Joe is currently based in New York, working as a user experience and information architecture consultant for the enterprise architecture group of a global IT firm. He blogs regularly at www.joelamantia.com.

Send recommendations on where to get a good bowl of noodles, or your favorite kind of hot sauce, to joe (at) joelamantia.com.

Stories written by Joe Lamantia

• Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template [20 comments]
• The Challenge of Dashboards and Portals [20 comments]
• It Seemed Like The Thing To Do At The Time [17 comments]
• Introduction to the Building Blocks [14 comments]
• Building Block Definitions (Containers) [4 comments]
• Connectors for Dashboards and Portals [4 comments]
• Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience [7 comments]

Comments made by Joe Lamantia

• Thanks Patrick - I'm glad you find them useful. The most im… [0 points]
• @Afshan: Thanks! @Brendan: You're quite right, it is easy… [1 points]
• @Brendan: I agree. I suspect we're working toward the same … [2 points]
• @Praveen: I hope you enjoy the next few installments. I ca… [1 points]
• Sound suggestion for an article - it's a topic that needs co… [0 points]
• Most of the building blocks related vocabulary you'll see th… [1 points]
• @Joan: You've surfaced the painful side of managing a finit… [0 points]
• @Andrew: Checking out the first article in the series shoul… [0 points]
• @Dave: Thanks for mentioning OO design: you've identified t… [0 points]
• @Patrick: Jumpchart is definitely a good candidate for the b… [1 points]
• Javed - My email address available at my site - http://www.j… [0 points]
• @Floris: You could translate the blocks to this sort of sit… [1 points]
• @Parth: Glad you enjoyed the articles, and thanks for the pr… [0 points]
• @Kiran: I'm compiling a list of related reading, to share a… [0 points]
• Good highlight of such an important aspect of practicing thi… [1 points]
• Anyone curious about Jumpchart should drop me a line to get … [0 points]
• @Dmitry: Geogrpahy selection is indeed a kind of parameter.… [1 points]
• @Jonathan: Sounds like the dashboards you experienced were … [0 points]
• @ Jonathan: I cashed in some air miles :) In truth, I had … [0 points]
• Kapil, You can mix tiled content with untiled content, so i… [0 points]
• Parth, what context do you have in mind for exploring these … [0 points]
• Nilesh, As a good consultant, I recommend going with the de… [0 points]
• @Praveen: Thanks - glad you're getting benefit from the mate… [1 points]
• @Noah: Great advice on how to evaluate potential leadership … [0 points]
• @James: I've seen the building blocks put to work in support… [0 points]
• Great writeup of the ideas you brought out in the failure pa… [0 points]
• I've just started a slideshare group open to people interest… [0 points]