Taxonomy Boot Camp 2022 Themes & Takeaways

November 17, 2022

Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of attending the 18th annual Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington DC. This year’s conference carried on its strong tradition of ideas, talks, and workshops for neophytes and experts alike, and, as always, provided much food for thought. Here’s a roundup of the themes and topics I saw recurring across talks, plus (as always) a bit of commentary on where I see them fitting into the bigger picture of designing information spaces that are easy to understand and pleasant to use.

Domain Modeling for Structured Content

January 27, 2022

Domain modeling helps organizations discover the information structures and meaning that allow structured content to reach further and last longer. By uncovering the assumptions and tacit rules that plague your content ecosystem, domain modeling can help you facilitate the shared vision necessary to create resilient, scalable systems for communication across channels.

Boutique Knowledge Graphs: Creating Smart Content at Any Scale

January 20, 2022

By situating data in context, knowledge graphs create valuable opportunities for content creation, recommendation, and management—even at small scales. A boutique approach to knowledge graph design offers a scalable strategy for starting out small and solving well-defined communication and discovery problems to create measurable value.

Structured Content Design Workflow 2022

January 12, 2022

Structured content design focuses on communicating effectively to an organization’s patrons, constituents, and customers, wherever they are and however they choose to access content. While it is the cornerstone of effective, scalable content design for the web, it’s also much more than just a “web” technique: it is a way to prioritize effective communication across contexts.

UXMethods.org: A Boutique Knowledge Graph Case Study

February 23, 2021

UX Methods is a progressive web app designed to help those new to the practice of user experience design explore and understand the purpose-driven connections between UX tools, techniques, and approaches. It is also a case study in boutique knowledge graph design which explores the benefits of bringing semantic web technologies to smaller scale projects.