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Dimensional ecology in information architecture

Ang Madsen

Ang Madsen

27 Mar 2023 — 5 min read
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Listen

Listen

Listen. The world is burning. We can hear the sizzling flames in the expanding targeting by ICE, pops in the darkling gloom that we hope are knots exploding in the heat and not gunshots. We can hear the break of the burned-enough-to-weaken log in the international shift to seeing the

By Ang Madsen 06 Feb 2026
People first

People first

These past few weeks have been hard. Hard to keep up with, hard to stomach, hard to assimilate, and hard to find a pathway forward. It's designed to be hard. The intent is to cow those of us who would be cowed; thrill those of us who would

By Ang Madsen 29 Jan 2026
Information technology design ethics

Information technology design ethics

Once upon a time, I looked for missing books at my college library. I had one of the best finding rates of anyone that had that position before me, and for years after (footnote). The secret to my success was in looking for each book as though it were a

By Ang Madsen 12 Jan 2026
Just care

Just care

We won't get a chance to fix systems if we can't touch them.

By Ang Madsen 12 Jan 2026
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smudging the binary

humanizing information: literacy, social fractals, function/abstraction, and design concepts