Chicago Camps Podcast

Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Dan Brown titled, “The Information Architecture of Products:”Embracing Change in DesignAcknowledges the inevitability of change in design and the importance of flexibility.Emphasizes the alignment of understanding within a team, even if there's no agreement.Outlines a script and story arc for future-oriented design, akin to TV show creation, without filming every episode in advance.Future-Oriented Design ApproachDiscusses the impossibility of creating unchangeable designs.Advocates for understanding and appreciating underlying structures without rigidly defining every bit of a product.Compares product design to TV show production, including high-level mapping and teasing out definitions.Clarifies that it's abstract but provides a common language for the product team.Conceptual Modeling vs Object MappingShares the idea of using a conceptual model as a flexible tool for understanding a domain.Prefers the term "concept" over "object" because it doesn’t pr