Last year’s KMWorld keynote speaker and information architecture expert, Peter Morville, pointed me to a discussion of search as a wayfinding system for websites.  Author of  the discussion, David Hatch, says web users are moving toward “search as being a standard, hard-wired, lizard brain reflex when confronted with moving through the vasty content spaces that are out there. The Googles have had no small impact on our wayfinding approaches. “  He also believes Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering would not agree.  Jared is a speaker at KMWorld 2009 so it will be interesting to hear what he shares about making an intuitive interface design.

Busy morning at the San Jose Convention Center for KMWorld & Intranets 2008. Dave Snowden & Mary Boone are leading a full day workshop on the “Leader’s Framework for Decision Making”. Theresa Regli is discussing enterprise search technology. Lots of workshops about building taxonomies, integrating taxonomies and auto-categorization supporting the Taxonomy Boot Camp event which begins on Wednesday evening. James Robertson focuses his workshop on strategies for innovative intranets and Peter Morville on information architecture 3.0. Ann Rockley is leading a workshop on content management strategies. More workshops will get underway this afernoon.