IAC 2023: The Specificity Gradient
Channel: dorian taylor
Date: 26/06/2023

This talk at the Information Architecture Conference expounds on the thumbnail talk I did of the same name (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDE_y7Qri9w) during peak pandemic. Unfortunately the conference budget was such that proper AV wasn't available, and the Q&A after the talk, which was productive, was not saved.

This same video is available here (https://vimeo.com/838169606 ), along with other talks from the conference.

00:00 - preamble
01:30 - desired outcome → specific method
02:40 - "business goals"
03:11 - "user goals"
03:42 - "user tasks"
03:55 - "system tasks"
04:12 - "system behaviours"
04:28 - CODE.
04:50 - it's like a coin sorter
06:17 - discussion: business goals
07:40 - discussion: user goals
08:29 - discussion: user tasks
09:34 - discussion: system tasks
10:25 - discussion: system behaviours
11:25 - precedent: shearing layers
13:25 - precedent: pace layers
15:07 - my contribution: perishability tracks with detail
15:38 - how I got here: behaviour sheets
17:53 - so what's the catch?
18:39 - still worth doing though!
22:04 - the specificity gradient makes the code much more disposable
23:24 - documents make lousy documentation
25:07 - information : documents :: ingredients : meals
27:36 - shout out to FAIR
28:10 - demonstration of IBIS tool