Our open source publishing platform LINES has evolved into a Ruby gem that you can plug into your Rails system. You may use it as the foundation for your blog or client work. It’s customizable and establishes a simple, comprehensive publishing process from writing to reading.

The entirety of information architecture is hard to communicate to outsiders. Oliver Reichenstein’s unofficial axiomatic dictum that information is like cleaning your kitchen, has helped me give people an idea of what I spend my time with.

In 1933, during the last census in the Weimar Republic, all citizens were asked about their religious affiliation. This information was later used by the nazis to find and murder fellow Jewish citizens.

We’ve been working with the people of the podcast app BeyondPod for years. They’re one of our favorite clients. When they decided to completely re-think their app and transfer it to the year 2015, we couldn’t wait to reassemble this Frankenstein’s monster and turn it into a real people person.

An investigation about metaphors as a concept in the digital space and beyond. Going from trope to technology to improve design system and experiences.

The most peculiar thing about technology is not that it’s neither good nor bad, but that it’s an amplifier for each. We built the first tools to help us harvest our food—or we built them to slay our neighbor and steal it from him. Using technology for the good or the bad makes us human.

All good things don’t come to an end—some just continue in a different form. We’ve decided to make our popular Android Developer Icons an open source project. You may now download the set for free and do with it whatever you like, including the icon font.

How one little word has helped us explain the sometimes terribly complex (even to tech-savvies) matters of UX and IA to people we work with, be they clients, friends, or colleagues. And how to make sense of anything at all, really.

Achieving a great information architecture for a digital product is hard, but it’s always worth the effort. So this Friday we wanted to share with you some valuable resources on IA that may have an effect upon how you think about design and development as well.

Taylor Ling is a passionate advocate for great UI and UX Design. Famous in the Android realm for his (re)designs that focus on clarity and usability, he is frequently invited to speak at conferences all over the world.

Taylor’s blog androiduiux.com is one of the most substantial resources for …