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The Informed Life

Jorge Arango

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 157

An interview-based show that explores how people organize and design information to get things done.

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🇩🇪 Germany - design
03/08/2026
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https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
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https://www.theiaconference.com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saul_Wurman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
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Chris Risdon on Service Design

Episode 147

Sunday, August 25, 2024 • Duration 43:02

Chris Risdon is a Senior Staff Designer at eBay. Chris describes himself as an interaction designer that tends to look through a service design lens. Alongside his co-author Patrick Quattlebaum, Chris wrote Orchestrating Experiences, which is an excellent guide to the practice of service design. In this conversation, we unpack service design: what it is, how it benefits organizations, and how it might be changing in light of new technologies like AI.

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https://theinformed.life/2024/08/25/episode-147-chris-risdon/

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Jodi Forlizzi on Designing With AI

Episode 146

Sunday, August 11, 2024 • Duration 46:00

Jodi Forlizzi is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Forlizzi has a distinguished career as a service designer, researcher, design leader, and academic. In this conversation, we discuss the changing role of design in the face of disruptive new technologies such as AI.

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https://theinformed.life/2024/08/11/episode-146-jodi-forlizzi/

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Nikki Anderson on Research Impact

Episode 137

Sunday, April 7, 2024 • Duration 31:51

Nikki Anderson is an independent user research consultant, instructor, author, and speaker. Nikki uses her background in education and psychology to mentor people and organizations on the value of user research. And now, she’s written a book to help them build up their research operations. That’s the focus of our conversation today.

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https://theinformed.life/2024/04/07/episode-137-nikki-anderson/

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Peter Morville on Emancipating Information Architecture

Episode 47

Sunday, October 25, 2020 • Duration 30:56

My guest today is Peter Morville. Peter is a pioneer in the discipline of information architecture. Among many other distinctions, he co-authored with Lou Rosenfeld Information Architecture for the World-Wide Web, the classic O’Reilly “polar bear” book on the subject. This is Peter’s second appearance on The Informed Life podcast. I asked him back because I wanted to learn more about his recent call for practitioners to emancipate information architecture.

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Peter Morville on Twitter
Semantic Studios
Intertwingled.org
Information Architecture: for the Web and Beyond, by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango
The Informed Life episode 10: Peter Morville on Seductive Information
Emancipating Information Architecture by Peter Morville
Don’t Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Pema Chödrön

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Jeff Johnson on Design for Aging

Episode 46

Sunday, October 11, 2020 • Duration 33:01

My guest today is Dr. Jeff Johnson. Jeff has been applying his background in psychology towards designing better human-computer interfaces for over forty years. He teaches computer science at The University of San Francisco, and has written several influential books on UI design. Among these, he co-authored with Kate Finn Desiging User Interfaces for an Aging Population, which is the focus of this conversation.

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Jeff Johnson
UI Wizards
Cognitive Psychology
Cromemco
Xerox
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Dont’s and Dos by Jeff Johnson
Designing With the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Guidelines by Jeff Johnson
Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design by Austin Henderson and Jeff Johnson (My notes on Conceptual Models)
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design by Jeff Johnson and Kate Finn
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Tanya Rabourn on Ethnography

Episode 45

Sunday, September 27, 2020 • Duration 31:37

My guest today is Tanya Rabourn. Tanya is a design strategist and researcher based in Dubai. Her focus is on service innovation for social impact. In this conversation, we discuss the role of ethnographic research in understanding the people and cultures served by design.

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Alexis Lloyd on the Granularity of Media

Episode 44

Monday, September 14, 2020 • Duration 30:27

My guest today is Alexis Lloyd. Alexis is VP of Product Design at Medium and co-founder of Ethical Futures Lab. Previously, she led design and innovation work at The New York Times, Axios, and Automattic. Alexis has been thinking about the future of media for a long time. In this conversation, we focus on the evolving ways we consume and produce media.

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Alexis Lloyd
@alexislloyd on Twitter
Research & Development at The New York Times
Axios
John Maeda (MAEDASTUDIO)
Automattic
Medium
Ethical Futures Lab
The future of news is not an article by Alexis Lloyd
Ted Nelson

Rob Haisfield on Roam

Episode 43

Sunday, August 30, 2020 • Duration 30:16

My guest today is Rob Haisfield. Rob is a behavioral product strategy and gamification consultant. He’s also an expert user of Roam, “a note-taking tool for networked thought.” In this conversation, we talk about Roam — what it is and how it can help you think more effectively.

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Rob Haisfield
@roberthaisfield on Twitter
Rob Haisfield on LinkedIn
Influence Insights, Rob’s consulting company
Spark Wave
Center for Advanced Hindsight
Roam Research
OneNote
Rob’s public repository
Spaced repetition
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
DEVONthink
GuidedTrack
Rob Haisfield’s Tour of Roam Research (video)

Nataly Restrepo on Food Design

Episode 42

Sunday, August 16, 2020 • Duration 31:20

My guest today is Nataly Restrepo. Nataly is an industrial designer specialized in food design. She works as a food and beverage innovation consultant for restaurants and consumer goods, and is based in Mexico. In this conversation we explore food design and how designing for experiences calls for a holistic understanding.

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Arvind Venkataramani on Rituals

Episode 41

Sunday, August 2, 2020 • Duration 32:36

My guest today is Arvind Venkataramani. Alongside Adam Menter, Arvind has been working on an open source toolkit to help people design secular rituals. In this conversation, we explore what rituals are and how being more intentional in their structure and use can improve our lives.

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Arvind Venkataramani
Adam Menter
The Ritual Design Toolkit
SonicRim
Graph of types of rituals
U-Haul
Virtual Memorial Guide
Barn raising
Anthony Giddens
Burning Man
Ritual Design at Burning Man 2019 by Arvind Venkataramani

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