on the website of Peter Morville’s consulting firm, Semantic Studios, http://www.semanticstudios.com/

Since Peter Morville is one of the leading voices in the field of Information Architecture, I’m sure his archived column is filled with important thoughts on the subject, as are his books. I’ve read David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous and Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, and through this site was able to read the first chapter of his newest book, Search Patterns. Upon reading the chapter of Search Patterns (2010), especially the section about users utilizing different types of searching that Morville defines as “modes of ask, browse, filter, and search,” (p. 19), I realized how the apparently simple design of the IA Summit page and its connections directly addressed these possibilities.

References

Morville, P. & Callender, J. (2010). Pattern recognition. In Search patterns (pp. 12-36). Retrieved from http://cdn.oreilly.com/oreilly/booksamplers/9780596802288-sampler.pdf