Living in Information
Responsible Design for Digital Places
Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they’re designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.
Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they’re designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.
Testimonials
A must-read for anyone who wants to understand why the digital spaces that drive our lives are deeply frustrating, and how we can make them better by learning from the way architects design buildings. It immediately and profoundly impacted the way I think about the systems I design and use.
Jeff Sussna, digital transformation consultant and author of Designing Delivery
Jorge Arango proves to be an insightful tour guide to information spaces, explaining how we interact with this new architecture.
Karen McGrane, author of Going Responsive
I loved this book by Jorge so much that I asked him to help me design and build the world we want to live in.
Dave Gray, author of Liminal Thinking and Gamestorming
If you hope to make places made of information better, the best place to learn is this book.
Peter Morville, author of Planning for Everything
It has never been more important to design with intention and vision. This book provides a definitive roadmap on how to lead, architect, and design information environments that are intentional, resilient, add value, and shape social interactions. Jorge has a remarkable gift for deconstructing complex concepts into simple, yet powerful takeaways. In Living in Information, he uses storytelling, visual illustrations, and practical examples to provide a clear path for shaping long-lasting and responsible digital information environments.
Priyanka Kakar, Director, Product Design, The Walt Disney Company
We spend more time in information environments every day— this book is a great place to spend some time to understand how we can design digital places that benefit us in the long term.
Dan Ramsden, Creative Director for UX Architecture and Design Research, BBC
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Environments
Chapter 2: Context
Chapter 3: Incentives
Chapter 4: Engagement
Chapter 5: Technology
Chapter 6: Architecture
Chapter 7: Structure
Chapter 8: Systems
Chapter 9: Sustainability
Chapter 10: Gardening
