Comments on: Lakoff’s Women, Fire & Dangerous Things - my Oz-IA talk http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2006/lakoffs-women-fire-dangerous-things-my-oz-ia-talk Information architecture, interaction design and much more Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:50:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Tuna http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2006/lakoffs-women-fire-dangerous-things-my-oz-ia-talk#comment-687 Tuna Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:37:00 +0000 http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2006/lakoffs-women-fire-dangerous-things-my-oz-ia-talk#comment-687 This for me was one of the highlights of OZ-IA, it was a topic I had read about before, but not really considered seriously. However your presentation singlehandedly turned my thinking and method of viewing this around. Its amazing how I can by this simple shift in my mind set see things in a much simplier focused view. From a designers view, its a bit like when you first discover the world is not lines, but light and shadow and reflective colour (hopefully you get this at design 101). Once you see it like that you can't go back to the way (I guess) every one else sees the world. And here was I getting really frustrated with some of the IA general methods etc. Donna this was good!! Mind you its not tempted me to get/read the book, maybe the opposite. This for me was one of the highlights of OZ-IA, it was a topic I had read about before, but not really considered seriously. However your presentation singlehandedly turned my thinking and method of viewing this around. Its amazing how I can by this simple shift in my mind set see things in a much simplier focused view. From a designers view, its a bit like when you first discover the world is not lines, but light and shadow and reflective colour (hopefully you get this at design 101). Once you see it like that you can’t go back to the way (I guess) every one else sees the world. And here was I getting really frustrated with some of the IA general methods etc.

Donna this was good!!

Mind you its not tempted me to get/read the book, maybe the opposite.

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