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Further Reading

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web [MR06] by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld provides some insight into hierarchical structures. Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy’s paper “Hierarchical File Systems are Dead” is also worth reading.^[112]

William Jones, a research associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, has an interesting presentation about structuring personal information.^[113]

To learn more about how to organize your own product in a hierarchical fashion, rather than about user-generated hierarchies, go back to Chapter 8, Hierarchies in User Interface Design .

Footnotes

[104]: Shuttleworth is the former CEO of Canonical Ltd., creator of the Ubuntu family of Linux distribution. ...

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