Presented at UX Ireland, November 2016. Description from the UX Ireland site: What if an actor could determine their own flow through a system? What if that system could dynamically create pathways to support free wandering, signposting just enough to enable discovery without direction? And what if the flow through the system was determined by the actor, but the system could create the most desired of all possible paths? As designers, we can imagine a system where meaning can be derived by the alignment of data and context, based on the current interactions: a transient information architecture where the arrangement of things and the relationships between them is determined in the moment. A blueprint for free roaming. An intelligent guide. If this, then that. But we only consider the experiential layer of a system that needs to understand and arrange data in response to those interactions. What we need is to architect a system that can use its knowledge of data relationships to create meaning at the point of interaction, because data only becomes information when you ask it to arrange itself. And the way you ask it to arrange itself is by compiling a query that determines the data that is to be arranged and a context within which the arrangement makes sense. How do we architect the system so that it can determine the most likely linking of data? How do we architect the data so that the system can make sense of it?

1. INTELLIGENT
GUIDES
ARCHITECTING SYSTEMS FOR
CONTEXT-DRIVEN INTERACTIONS
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2. TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE
WHERE THE ARRANGEMENT
OF THINGS AND THE
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
THEM CAN BE DETERMINED
IN THE MOMENT
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3. CHAPTER 1:
NATURAL
WORLDS
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5. CHAPTER 2:
CREATED
WORLDS
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7. CHAPTER 3:
CURATED
WORLDS
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CHAPTER 4:
INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS

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77. WALLPAPER HEAVEN
WORLD IS A GREAT
WALLPAPER FOR YOUR
COMPUTER DESKTOP

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CHAPTER 5:
PRINCIPLES FOR
CONTEXT-DRIVEN
INTERACTIONS

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AN ACTOR MAY
DETERMINE AND
NAVIGATE THEIR OWN
FLOW THROUGH A
SYSTEM

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THE SYSTEM SHOULD
CREATE PATHWAYS
TO SUPPORT FREE
WANDERING

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THE SYSTEM SHOULD
CREATE THE MOST
DESIRED PATH OF ALL
POSSIBLE PATHS

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THE FUNNEL EXISTS
AND HAS AN INFINITE
IN AND A TINY OUT

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INCREMENTALLY ADJUST
THE ANGLE OF INTENT,
THE VELOCITY OF FLOW,
AND THE ACQUISITION
OF OBVIOUSLY

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OBJECTS ONLY BECOME
MEANINGFUL WHEN THE
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
THEMSELVES AND OTHER
OBJECTS ARE DEFINED

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DATA ONLY BECOMES
INFORMATION
WHEN YOU ASK IT TO
ARRANGE ITSELF

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THE DEFINITION OF
CONTEXT AND QUERY
IS WHAT GIVES DATA
MEANING

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CHAPTER 6:
ARCHITECTING
SYSTEMS FOR
CONTEXT-DRIVEN
INTERACTIONS

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‘THE WHOLE THING’ ARCHITECTURE

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‘THE WHOLE THING’ ARCHITECTURE

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ACTORS
MANY
INTENTS
MANY
PATHS

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STATIC PATHWAYS
DYNAMIC PATHWAYS

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BEHAVIOURAL PATHWAYS

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THE EXPERIENCE STACK
EXPERIENCE
PLATFORM
DATA

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SCENARIO MAPPING

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QUERY
ASSEMBLE
THE SCENARIEXPERIENCE STACK

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ASSEMBLE

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ASSEMBLE

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ASSEMBLE
LOCATION ACTION INTENT
DATA ATTRIBUTES METADATA

106. QUERY
ASSEMBLE
LOCATION ACTION INTENT
DATA ATTRIBUTES METADATA
CONTEXT
CONTENT
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QUERY
ASSEMBLE
THE SCENARIEXPERIENCE STACK

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ALL WE’RE DOING IS
RECONSTRUCTING
ALL THAT HAS BEEN
DECONSTRUCTED

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ULTIMATELY, WE’RE
DECIDING FOR
OTHERS HOW THE
UNIVERSE IS
ARRANGED

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WE WANT TO
UNDERSTAND
THE STRUCTURE
OF EVERYTHING

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