Yesterday I wrote a post about how one theme in Lakoff’s book “Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things”, the way that categories display prototype effects, can be applied to web classification schemes.
The second major takeaway from Lakoff’s theory of categorization, the status of basic-level categories, requires some understanding of what is so unique about Lakoff’s approach [...]
Category Archives: Information Architecture
Information Architecture… Category Theory, Part II
September 9, 2008 – 3:41 pm
Information Architecture: Insight from Category Theory
September 8, 2008 – 10:16 pm
What does a very dense book written by a cognitive linguist have to do with Information Architecture, especially when there are some good texts already on this subject, such as the O’Reilly book, or the one written by Peter Van Dijck? More than you might think. So much, in fact, that this may turn [...]
