Are you still managing your @sanity.io content with free tags, flat lists, or hard-coded values? Learn how to install, build, tag with, and query a taxonomy in Sanity Studio in this 20-minute "lightning" talk on getting started with Taxonomy Manager: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFR...

How is AI changing the way we approach Information Architecture, UX, and strategic decision-making?

At #IAC25, we will explore how to ethically and thoughtfully leverage AI and LLMs to enhance your workflow.

Generative AI is good at producing content tagging outputs that "look" right ... but do they meet user goals? And are they any better than what we can already accomplish with less problematic approaches? Here's an experiment that explores those questions.

Too often, well-intentioned taxonomy solutions never fully make it to the systems they're meant to serve. Don't let this be your fate! Here's the process I use to migrate taxonomy drafts in a spreadsheet to the taxonomy management tool in @sanity.io.

Taxonomies should be designed with clearly defined goals and use cases, right? Obvious as this is, it's a step many orgs gloss over—with frustratingly mixed outcomes as a result. Here's a process I use for selecting terms, creating structure, and vetting design approaches for taxonomy projects.

"It’s the ultimate icebreaker: 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹, 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗔𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 – made even easier because there’s a topic right there in front of you."
– Andy Fitzgerald, PhD

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗜𝗔𝗖's 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

Under the hype and hyperbole of "AI" capabilities, I suspect there's a compelling use case for LLMs in making time-tested analysis and classification practices more approachable. Here's an experiment combining LLMs and rules-based text analysis exploring that idea.

Status: Trying to imagine what my reaction would have been if someone had told me in 1995 that in thirty years I’d hear NIN’s “Closer” in my neighborhood healthy pet food store on a Sunday afternoon. Times we live in!

If you work in #UX, #IA, #ContentStrategy, or #ProductDesign and can arrange to be in Philadelphia next May, #IAC25 promises to be packed with ideas, inspiration, and new (and reinvigorated) connections to community and craft. This will be my 15th year attending—and every one has been amazing!

All right. So now that I’ve put down a foundation of “professional” posts to establish that I am indeed a serious-person-of-business™️, it’s time for you all to meet Poppy & Ella. This is still the _internet_, after all:

Hey BlueSky folk! Occasionally after conferences that tickle my brain I write up a synthesis of all the ponderables that stuck with me. Here's one such synthesis of late November's Taxonomy Boot Camp in DC.

Information Architecture and UX friends! The IA Conference in Philadelphia is a mere 154 days from today ... but it's not too late to submit an entry for Poster Night. Of all the many ways to connect with other practitioners, Poster Night is one of my favorite, both as an exhibitor and a spectator:

Denizens of Bluesky! Dig my #TaxonomyBootCamp slides over this-a-way: conferences.infotoday.com/documents/45...
As per my usual, they’re much more illustration than transcript, but you will get a peek of the #MathematicalMagicMushroom in action.

Thanks to everyone who came out to my #TaxonomyBootCamp talk on #OrchestratingTheMundane. Please connect if you're here on the 'sky — Mathematical Magic Mushroom wishes you all a great rest of your conference!