Thomas Vander Wal — IA for the “Come to Me Web”
A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.
Session description
In this specialised session Thomas gets us up to speed with his “Come to Me Web” framework for structuring information and web sites. This framework includes the “Model of Attraction”, Personal InfoCloud, and Folksonomy. This ads the focus of designing and developing for information use across devices and context. With this framework we can consider mobile, broadband, web storage and personal off-line storage of information and its implications as we structure our information and sites.
About Thomas Vander Wal
Thomas Vander Wal has a broad background in information management, which encompasses information architecture, interaction design, web development and information design. Thomas has 18 years of professional experience in the web and technology sector. He has spoken on information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, web standards, and user-centered design at IA Summit, STC, SXSW, Design Engaged, WebVisions, BayCHI, and various workshops. Thomas helped found Boxes and Arrows and the Information Architecture Institute (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture), and is currently on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project. In 2004 he coined the term Folksonomy and is researching, advising, and developing tagging systems and services. He is the founder and principal of InfoCloud Solutions, Inc., a web consulting and product development firm.
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[…] Thomas Vanderwal is one of the top thinkers when it comes to designing for the distributed Web — what he calls the ‘come to me Web’. This is an area of great interest to me (you might also listen to the podcasts with Peter Merholz about ’sandbox experiences’, Tom Coates on designing for data, and Dan Saffer on creating hackable products), and I’m quite pleased to get to chat with Thomas for such a long time. We talk about folksonomies, the personal infocloud, designing for mobile and what it might take to create a breakthrough there. We also discuss Yahoo Local and LinkedIn, among others, as examples of the kind of services that partake of the distributed Web. […]