I am the Information Architecture Team Leader in the BBC’s Future Media & Technology department, which is a lot of words and quite reasonably attracted the scorn of Private Eye.
I try and organise the BBC’s website. Mostly via a team of very talented IAs.
I live in Tottenham with my husband, cat, rabbits and chickens. This seems to surprise people who know Tottenham. My husband works with trees so I’m trying to work out how to be “IA in the woods”. Lots of my interests fit into a bigger theme of ‘the good life in the digital age’.
I started ia play as a place for my musings on playful approaches to information architecture. There’s been more on play than IA so far. I feel pretty strongly that all this work business should be more fun. I’m sure that’d help us do it better.
Luckily I work at the BBC, an organisation that wants creativity to be the ‘lifeblood of the organisation‘ and isn’t about making money. So mostly I’m in a good place for this stuff. It also helps as IA is pretty new as discipline and doesn’t have much in the way of rules about how you have to do things. And a division that calls itself future anything can’t get too uptight about very much at all.
(all views expressed on this website are my personal views and not those of the BBC)
