Ambient Findability has ratings and 85 reviews. Sarah said: Ambient Findability by Peter Morville is often used as a textbook in the reference cour. Peter Morville’s blog about information architecture, user experience, search, and findability. Ambient Findability. I have never For an information architect with library roots, the answer is obvious: ambient findability. by Peter Morville.
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Instead it is a call for professionalism, consistency and intelligence behind how information is gathered, sorted and marked for retrieval. Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible.
A coworker loaned this book to me, but I don’t think enough time has elapsed since graduation almost ten years ago! What did you do to make it more findability-friendly?
Ambient Findability
In your book, you point out that the information in the Encyclopedia Britannica has a findability problem. Design by Q LTD. It’s like stepping through a door to a shifted universe that’s richer, deeper, and more connected.
Also, I found most of the examples and pictures to really distract from the theory and despite the book being beautifully printed in full color these pictures often did little to enhance the message. Morville’s tone is informative but still conversational which helps make the information go down a lot more smoothly. In your book, you claim that users are often willing to sacrifice information quality for accessibility. It explains important topics in a traditional manner xmbient is clear, simple and safe.
In other words, anyone can find anything at any time.
Oct 28, Lindsay Burrell rated it it was amazing Fondability Feb 21, Amy rated it liked it Shelves: This is a really interesting book that I really wanted to like more than I did. Studying the Creation of Kindergarten. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability.
I was entertained by a thread arguing against Clay Shirky’s blog posts on several matters — my disagreement with Clay on fjndability recent analysis of Second Life made me appreciate it even more. I don’t really know who this book is written for.
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Morvi,le teases out connections between them to show how the web has changed how we think and live our lives. I first used the word in a ambienh at the Information Architecture Summit in Baltimore. Quoting Wikipedia, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere inanimate matter and the biosphere biological lifeBoundary Objects ideas and things that ‘are shared but understood differently by multiple communitiesand so on.
Do you agree with him? Gone Fishin’ After years of loyal service, findability. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more — ideas that will not petrr fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately. Morville’s book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet. Morville is a good writer, with interesting analogies, but I felt some of the chapters were not relevant to the focus of the book and sometimes the topics got off track.
Join O’Reilly Media’s fan group. In the past, Liz directed experience strategy for AIGA, where she was responsible for the national web presence and all online and New Riders publications. Thanks for all of your support and encouragement over the past nine years. Of course, not long after this becomes possible, it will be considered mundane. How much information do we want? See our FAQ or contact customer service: Ironically, it’s hard to find via Amazon’s search.
As long as humans use words to communicate, findability will remain imperfect.
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Do we trust information from The Man of mainstream media, or do we trust our favorite blogger who simply tells us what w I came for my grad school class, I stayed because it’s ;eter plain interesting stuff. My sense is that many adults lack the information literacy skills needed to cope with a mediascape that enables us to select our sources and choose our news. How does it feel to be associated with a lemur?

We’ve been seduced by surface at the expense of understanding. Makes me realize how fast things mlrville in the technology world. What do you do to ensure that you yourself are more findable online? This book is kind of a “state of the field” summary for information search and discovery, a hot topic these days. Having achieved this network nirvana, the question is inevitable: Jan 07, Mary rated it it was amazing.

August 18, 2: I was given this book by a colleague who was very excited about it. It was interesting again, only to a point to see where the author thought computing would take us in the future. Overall, though, I liked the book a lot, and appreciated his copious footnoting and discussion of sources, as well his ability to bring it all together in a relatively small space.
So I had to drag my body around the meatspace of the mall, and the whole time I just kept wishing that I could Google the Mall, and go home.
