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Nate is an independent researcher, strategist, and seasoned practitioner of information architecture, IA engineering, and IA analytics. He is passionate about aligning, planning, and transforming the concept baseline of large-scale information environments to improve user and business outcomes.

Nate’s research interests focus on IA theory and structural design science, mainly as they support user experience and knowledge management. His work also explores the intersection of conceptual modeling, natural language processing, symbolic reasoning, task automation, and machine intelligence.

Since 2010, Nate has authored over 60 professional articles and curates the longest-running glossary on information architecture. He is a former co-chair of the IA Summit, co-founded the reboot of the IA Summit as the IAC (Information Architecture Conference), and occasionally volunteers as a peer reviewer.