The Informed Life
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Margot Bloomstein on Trust
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Margot Bloomstein is the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy. Over a twenty year career, she has consulted in a w...
Hà Phan on Product Leadership
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hà Phan is the Director of Discovery for Pluralsight, an e-learning platform. Before becoming a product leader, she was a principal UX designer at Go...
Kourosh Dini on DEVONthink
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kourosh Dini is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and productivity expert. He is the author of an excellent book on how to take smart notes using DEVONth...
Jason Ulaszek on Healing Social Rifts
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Ulaszek is an experience designer, activist, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the founder of Inzovu, a design collective, and UX for Good, a no...
Grace Lau on Information Architecture Events
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Lau is an information architect and user experience designer based in the Greater Los Angeles area. She’s the co-president of World IA Day and...
Cheryl Platz on Multimodality
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cheryl Platz is an accomplished interaction designer who has designed multimodal experiences for Amazon, Microsoft, the Walt Disney Company and more. ...
Brian Breslin on Building Community
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Brian Breslin. Brian is a tech entrepreneur, educator, and community builder based in Miami. He’s the director of The Launch Pad, ...
Phillip Hunter on Design for Conversation
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Phillip Hunter. Phillip is a strategy and innovation consultant focused on conversational systems. He has a long trajectory working ...
Caroline Crampton on Curation
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Caroline Crampton. Caroline is a freelance writer and podcaster. Among other things, she edits The Listener, a daily newsletter that...
Peter Morville on Emancipating Information Architecture
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Peter Morville. Peter is a pioneer in the discipline of information architecture. Among many other distinctions, he co-authored with...
Jeff Johnson on Design for Aging
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Dr. Jeff Johnson. Jeff has been applying his background in psychology towards designing better human-computer interfaces for over fo...
Tanya Rabourn on Ethnography
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Alexis Lloyd on the Granularity of Media
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 innovat...
Rob Haisfield on Roam
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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-takin...
Nataly Restrepo on Food Design
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Nataly Restrepo. Nataly is an industrial designer specialized in food design. She works as a food and beverage innovation consultant...
Arvind Venkataramani on Rituals
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Arvind Venkataramani. Alongside Adam Menter, Arvind has been working on an open source toolkit to help people design secular rituals...
Heather Hedden on Taxonomies
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Heather Hedden. Heather is an information management consultant specialized in taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, metadata, and in...
Stephen P. Anderson on Cognitive Environments
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Stephen P. Anderson. Stephen is a design leader who is focused on workforce learning and organizational development. He and Karl Fas...
Andy Polaine on Service Design
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Andy Polaine. Andy is a service designer, consultant, educator, author, and podcaster. He’s co-author of the book Service Design: ...
Audrey Crane on Design in Organizations
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Audrey Crane. Audrey is a partner in DesignMap, a UX strategy and digital product design consultancy based in San Francisco. Audrey ...
Louis Rosenfeld on Virtual Conferences
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is my friend Lou Rosenfeld. Besides publishing books — including my own Living in Information — Lou and his team at Rosenfeld Media...
Matt Nish-Lapidus on Art
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Matt Nish-Lapidus. Matt is an artist, musician, researcher, designer, and educator based in Toronto. Besides creating art and music,...
Ren Pope on Ontologies
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Ren Pope. Ren is a Principal at Info-Do, which offers data, information, and knowledge architecture consulting. He’s worked in the...
Abby Covert on Remote Work
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is my friend Abby Covert, also known as Abby the IA. Abby is a Senior Information Architect at Etsy. She wrote the book How to Make Sen...
Aynne Valencia on Work Cycles
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Aynne Valencia. Aynne is my colleague at the California College of the Arts, where she is the former Chair of the undergraduate inte...
Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz on the Long-term View
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz, the director of development of the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, CA. The Foundation was created to...
Christian Crumlish on Product Management
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Christian Crumlish. Christian has led product and design teams in organizations ranging from startups to large tech companies. In th...
Maria Giudice on Purpose
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Maria Giudice. Maria founded Hot Studio, a design consultancy that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. After leaving Facebook, she ser...
Peter Merholz on the Structure of Organizations
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Peter Merholz. Peter is one of the co-founders of the pioneering UX design consultancy Adaptive Path, now part of Capital One. After...
Cyd Harrell on Design for the Long-term
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Cyd Harrell. Cyd is a product, service design, and user research leader focused on the civic and government space. In this conversat...
Andrew Hinton on Language and Environments
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Andrew Hinton. Andrew has worked in the digital design field for two decades. He’s one of the founders of the Information Architec...
Mary Parks on Voice User Interfaces
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Mary Parks. Mary’s background is in communications and applied linguistics, and for the past twenty years she has worked on design...
Michael J. Metts on Writing as Design
08 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Michael J. Metts. Michael designs digital products and services, with a focus on the impact of writing on the user’s experience. H...
Carol Smith on Artificial Intelligence
24 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Carol Smith. Carol is a user experience researcher at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her focus is...
Andrea Mignolo on Designerly Ways of Being
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Andrea Mignolo. Andrea is VP of Product and Design at Movable Ink, a marketing technology company based in New York. In this episode...
Vanessa Foss on Event Planning
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Vanessa Foss. Vanessa has been planning and managing conferences for twenty-five years. She’s the founder and president of Kunverj...
Chris Chandler on Design Ethics
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Chris Chandler. Chris is a partner at Philosophie, a strategic software design and development studio. He’s also a self-described ...
Eduardo Ortiz on Social Impact
29 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Eduardo Ortiz. Eduardo is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Director at the U.S. Digital Service. More recently, Eduardo co-fou...
Thomas Dose on Music Collections
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Thomas Dose. Thomas is the head of Music Services at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. In this role, he works with a massive ...
Rachel Price on Improvisation
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Rachel Price. Rachel works as a Senior Information Architect at Microsoft and teaches Information Architecture at the School of Visu...
MJ Broadbent on Graphic Recording
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m joined by my friend MJ Broadbent. As a graphic facilitator and recorder, MJ uses visual thinking to help people communicate more effective...
Jeff Sussna on Cybernetics
04 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is IT consultant and author Jeff Sussna. Jeff’s liberal arts background has given him a unique perspective on digital transformation....
Lis Hubert on Intentional Living
21 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is information architect Lis Hubert. Over the past year, Lis has been living and working around the world as what some folks call a “...
Ariel Waldman on Antarctica
07 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is NASA advisor, author, and YouTube videographer Ariel Waldman. Ariel describes what she does as making “massively multiplayer scien...
Kim Lenox on Leadership
23 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is design executive Kim Lenox. Kim is Vice President of Product Design at Zendesk. In her 20+ year career, she’s also led design team...
Lisa Welchman on Governance
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is digital governance advocate Lisa Welchman. For the past twenty years, Lisa has helped organizations manage the flow of their digital...
Peter Morville on Seductive Information
26 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is information architecture and user experience pioneer Peter Morville. Alongside Lou Rosenfeld, Peter co-authored Information Architec...
Jessica Ivins on Getting Things Done
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Jessica Ivins. Jessica is a user experience designer. She’s also faculty member at Center Centre, the UX design school in Chattano...
Trip O’Dell on Dyslexia
28 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Trip O’Dell. Trip has worked as a product designer for leading technology companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, and Amazon. Before h...
Donna Lichaw on Stories
14 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Donna Lichaw. After a long career that included documentary film-making and tech, Donna discovered her calling: helping people hone ...
Beck Tench on Tinderbox
31 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Beck Tench. Beck is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. This role requires that she deal with a lot of infor...
Kevin M. Hoffman on Proposals
17 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Kevin M. Hoffman. Kevin is a designer, manager, and author who has led teams of designers both inside and outside of large organizat...
Andrea Kates on Innovation
03 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Andrea Kates. Andrea is a consultant and author who equips leaders to translate emerging trends into growth for their businesses. Sh...
Fabricio Teixeira on Publishing
17 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Fabricio Teixeira. Fabricio has led design teams at various agencies over the past 15 years; now he’s at Work & Co, a digital ...
Gretchen Anderson on Writing
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Gretchen Anderson. Gretchen spent the first part of her career consulting with world-renowned design firms. More recently, she’s l...
Louis Rosenfeld on Managing
20 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Lou Rosenfeld. Alongside Peter Morville, Lou wrote the seminal book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web — also known ...
Introduction
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode zero of the show, which means I don’t have a guest. Instead, I talk about what we’re going to be doing here: what this show is abo...