Adam Greenfield
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Adam Greenfield is an American writer and information architect. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1968.
Greenfield attended New York University during the late 1980s, earning a degree in Cultural Studies. By the mid-1990s, he had enlisted in the United States Army's reserve component Special Operations Command as a Psychological Operations specialist, holding MOS 37F and eventually achieving the grade of Sergeant.
Greenfield took up work in the then-nascent field of information architecture for the World Wide Web, holding a succession of prominent positions culminating in employment at the Tokyo office of Razorfish, where he was head of the information architecture department. He is probably best known for having written an "open-source constitution for postnational states" called the Minimal Compact, as well as proposed ethical guidelines for developers of ubiquitous-computing environments. He is also credited with having coined the word "moblog" to describe the practice of publishing to the World Wide Web from mobile devices, and the word "everyware" as an umbrella term for ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient informatics and tangible media.
He is generally considered to be a thought leader in the information architecture and user experience professions. Until January 2005, Greenfield maintained a Web site devoted to discussions of "beauty, utility and balance across the metafield of design", but it currently appears to be on hiatus.
External links
- Adam Greenfield — Userati (http://www.usabilityviews.com/userati_adam_greenfield.html)
- Minimal Compact (http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=339)
- proposed ethical guidelines for developers of ubiquitous-computing environments (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/all_watched_over_by_machines_of_loving_grace_some_ethical_guidelines_for_user_experience_in_ubiquitouscomputing_settings_1.php)
- www.v-2.org, web page on hiatus (http://www.v-2.org)