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Peter Van Dijck.
Information architect, product lead, founder of two startups, author of “Information Architecture for Designers”. I love creating products that users love.
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Bio.
Peter Van Dijck is a renowned information architect and author of the book “Information architecture for designers”. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences. He founded two startups and lives in New York City.
Professional.
- 2011 Founder-in-residence, Gush.
- 2010 - 2009 Vice President Global User Experience, Fox Mobile.
- 2008 Senior Information Architect, Internet architects.
- 2004 - 2007 Founder, Mefeedia.
- 2005 - 2007 Independent Information Architecture Consultant.
- 2002 - 2004 Information Architect Leadership Team, LDS.
- 2000 - 2002 Lead Information Architect, Vardus.
Projects.
- Raising multilingual kids - a blog about raising kids in more than 1 language.
- Poorbuthappy.com A social site for travelers (now closed).
- Mefeedia. I founded Mefeedia, a popular media feeds aggregator as a part of my involvement in the videoblogging world. I sold it in 2007.
- Colombia Migration Project. The Colombia Migration Project is a videoblogging/ethnography project about migration.
- Videoblogging list. I started the very popular videoblogging mailing list together with Jay Dedman in 2004.
- Book. I wrote the book "Information architecture for designers".
- XFML. I developed XFML, an XML specification to share faceted classification systems.
- Faceted classification. I started the now defunct faceted classification mailing list.
- IA translation. I started the translations group at the Information Architecture Institute.
Personal.