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Richard Saul Wurman (born 1936) is an American Architect and Graphic Designer . He is considered a pioneer in the practice of making information understandable. He has written and designed over 80 books and created the ''' TED Conference s.''' In 1976 he coined the phrase ''' Information Architect ''' out of his reaction to a society that daily creates massive amounts of information, but with little care or order. He created the popular ''ACCESS'' travel guide books which were innovative in their use of mapping content by neighborhood. Simple, but effective use of colored text allowed the reader to quickly separate, locate and evaluate restaurants, museums, parks, and other categorical destinations. The design concept was based on how we seek information, in this case, by location. With this series of books, Wurman firmly established the purpose of information architecture. BOOKS
QUOTATIONS On creating the term "information architect": "I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systemic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it." — Richard Saul Wurman REFERENCES
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