Pervasive Information Architecture » healthcare http://pervasiveia.com Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:03:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Salience and Taxonomy Change http://pervasiveia.com/blog/salience-and-taxonomy-change http://pervasiveia.com/blog/salience-and-taxonomy-change#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:53:07 +0000 Andrea http://pervasiveia.tumblr.com/post/274826425 The salient organising principle is no longer location, but mechanism. It’s not that a classification by location is wrong, it’s just not especially useful any more.

Salience and Taxonomy Change

]]> http://pervasiveia.com/blog/salience-and-taxonomy-change/feed 0 John Snow and the removal of the Broad Street pump handle http://pervasiveia.com/blog/john-snow-and-the-removal-of-the-broad-street-pump-handle http://pervasiveia.com/blog/john-snow-and-the-removal-of-the-broad-street-pump-handle#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:40:11 +0000 Andrea http://pervasiveia.tumblr.com/post/270703198 “Among the 70 workers in a Broad Street brewery, where the men were given an allowance of free beer every day and so never drank water at all, there were no fatalities at all. And an army officer living in St John’s Wood had died after dining in Wardour Street, where he too had drunk a glass of water from the Broad Street well”.

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