Building an Architecture of “Vibes”: Affective IA in Practice
It started off as a joke: while brainstorming with my team on ways to conceptualize the IA and plan user testing for a new web app to explore our library spaces, my web designer said, “what if we made a filterable category for ‘vibe’?” We all laughed at the time, but almost immediately the idea stuck in my head. What if we DID make “vibe” a filterable category by which users could explore our spaces? Thus began a fun, experimental and highly informative journey, working with our users to create an effective and affective architecture that would allow them to explore our libraries’ spaces based on so much more than how many people would fit in a room or what kind of technology different spaces were equipped with (though we of course included those things, too!)
