Nate Davis
Chief Information Architect & Structural Design Analyst
Nate is an independent researcher, strategist, and seasoned practitioner of information architecture, IA engineering, and IA-based analytics. He is passionate about aligning, planning, and transforming the concept baseline of large-scale information environments to improve user and business outcomes.
Nate’s research interests focus on IA theory and structural design science, mainly as they support user experience and knowledge management. His work also explores the intersection of conceptual modeling, natural language processing, symbolic reasoning, task automation, and machine intelligence.
Since 2010, Nate has authored over 50 professional articles and curates the longest-running glossary dedicated to information architecture. He is a former co-chair of the IA Summit, co-founded the reboot of IA Summit as the IAC (Information Architecture conference), and occasionally volunteers as a peer reviewer.
Nate’s insights on the practice of information architecture and IA structure are featured in the 2nd Edition of Advances in Information Architecture.
Keepers of Structure: In Conversation with Nathaniel Davis
Edited by:
Sara Rice
Episode 126 of The Informed Life podcast features a conversation with Nate Davis. Nate is an information architecture consultant and a longtime contributor to the global IA community. In this conversation, we discuss his ideas about IA sub-disciplines that influence the construction of digital user interfaces.
Listen to An Interview with Nate Davis