Ambient Findability

How do you find your way in an age of information overload How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions What does it mean to be findable in this day and age This eye opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability In other words, anyone can find anything at any time Complete navigability.Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.The book s central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future Morville s book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life Ambient Findability doesn t preach or pretend to know all the answers Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond Peter Morville takes you on a thought provoking tour of these memes and ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately. Best Download [ Ambient Findability ] author [ Peter Morville ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Ambient Findability by Peter Morville is often used as a textbook in the reference course I took The professor I took it from didn t include the book but the title and the fact that it was published by O Reilly Media piqued my interest enough to want to read it as the class was starting up.Although the description mentions information overload, the book isn t really about that It s about how information and people hook up There is the information that one seeks and that which falls into one s Ambient Findability by Peter Morville is often used as a textbook in the reference course I took The professor I ...really enjoyed what i got through before having this due back at the library while i was pretty skeptical about picking up a tech book nearly a decade old, ambient findability is a creative nonfiction about information, wayfinding, mapping, storage retrieval ...This is a really interesting book that I really wanted to likethan I did It s got a lot of great ideas, but it often dissolves into word collage raves about the glowing future that technology will bring us from the lens of 2005 Maybe it can t help being dated, but then there s the part where the author gushes about the possibility of his Treo PDA Smartphone merging someday with his GPS unit so he could have ONE device that does BOTH THINGS.Overall, the book is both thought collectin This is a really interesting book that I really wanted to likethan I did It s got a lot of great ideas, but it often dissolves into word collage raves about the glowing future...Ambient Findability is an interesting and thought provoking read, the book dedicates itself towards the questions of how we can design into a fast emerging world where we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime.I use the phrase design into intentionally The world for which Ambient Findability primarily concerns itself with has not yes been created, but to ensure the world exists we must begin designing into our products and services the constructs for such a solution.Morville s Ambient Findability is an interesting and thought provoking read, the book dedicates itself towards the questions of how we can design into a fast emerging world where we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime.I use the phrase design into intentionally The world for which Ambient Findability primarily concerns itself with has not yes been created, but to ensure the world exists we must begin designing into our products and services the constructs for such a solution.Morville s book is a foundational look at how we find The hope is that by exploring the way in which we find and our biases for how we both process information and find information I found a lot of synergy with the research conducted in Keeping Found Things Found.If you re in the middle of a meaty complex project of information architecture and trying to figure out how to find arobust solution, this book is not for you However if you are at the beginning or heading into this project, this book w...This book reads as an overview of most popsci popphil books from the past twenty years and in many ways it is exactly that There is some stuff about findability and some vision about the future it heralds, but it looks like Morville bites offthan he can chew.I don t really kno...This is the second time I have tried to read this and sort of lost interest before getting halfway through Should I be admitting that as a techie librarian Probably not If I try this again, I will have to be sure to start at the halfway point As a side note, Morville is a fantastic...Morville, though a guru in Information Architecture is not a very good or compelling writer Most of his ideas were summaries of other Big Idea book ideas Most interesting for his discussions on wayfinding and folksonomies though...Mentioned as read over break for 590RO My succinct review, tripe A story about how this book itself is not so ambiently findable, which I still find extremely humorous.i once made a joke to my friend that this book was about finding tangerine dream records when browsing through a record store if that was the case, i m not sure if that would increase or decrease the amount of stars i guess it depends on which eraRead this for grad school Actually, much better than I expected It was written long enough ago that all the discussions about social networking don t yet mention Facebook Makes me realize how fast things advance in the technology world.

• English
• 12 August 2017
Peter Morville
• Paperback
• 208 pages
• 0596007655
• Peter Morville
• Ambient Findability