A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 272

Authors: R: Aaron Rester

Aaron Rester

Aaron Rester is Manager of Electronic Communications at the University of Chicago Law School, as well as a freelance graphic designer and web professional. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School (where he studied depictions of religious space in Bollywood film) and plays guitar in a band called (what else?) The Lost Cartographers.

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Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer

Issue 266August 26, 2008

Since at least Richard Saul Wurman’s 1996 book Information Architects, architecture has been the primary metaphor for how we think about what we do. By adding a new metaphor to our theoretical toolboxes, we can gain a richer, more nuanced understanding of what we create and how our users interact with it.