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Looking back to push forward.

Sarah R. Barrett

Aisles in a typical American supermarket

Information architecture and metaphor

What happens when load-bearing metaphors break down?

Sarah R. Barrett

The parable of the railroad: a useful metaphor for Information Architects

A screnshot of a ChatGPT prompt asking for a joke about information architecture

ChatGPT and Negotiating the Question

ChatGPT is not going to solve your information retrieval problems…yet.

Sarah R. Barrett

A screenshot of Personal Capital, a money management web app is shown on the left, labeled “Tabletops.” A screenshot of BBC news, a content-based website is shown on the right, labeled “Landscapes.”

Understanding Architectural Scale: Tabletops and landscapes

IA in Practice: Measuring Navigation Health with Analytics

Sarah R. Barrett

Two icons depicting a note or document. The left icon is visually skeuomorphic, trying to look like a physical notepad. The right icon uses “flat” design and does not attempt to mimic the look of paper or binding.

Websites are not living rooms and other lessons for information architecture

Sarah R. Barrett

A chart from the World Health Organization showing global estimates of disability prevalence, ranging from approximately 2% to as high as 25%, depending on the method used to count. The average is approximately 15%.

Your Information Architecture is an Accessibility Problem

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