Jesse James Garrett

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Jesse James Garrett at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Jesse James Garrett at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Jesse James Garrett is an information architect and founder of Adaptive Path, an information architecture and user experience firm. Garrett co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, and his essays have appeared in New Architect, Boxes and Arrows, and Digital Web Magazine.

Garrett authored The Elements of User Experience, a conceptual model of user-centered design first published as a diagram in 2000 and later as a book (ISBN 0-7357-1202-6) in 2002. Although originally intended for use in web design, the Elements model has since been adopted in other fields such as software development and industrial design. He also created the first standardized notation for information architecture, known as the Visual Vocabulary.

Garrett's other works include ia/recon, an influential essay on the evolution of the information architecture field, and The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams, a conceptual model similar to Elements for team structures and processes. Garrett coined the term Ajax in February 2005[1]. Garrett thought of the term while in the shower[2], when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to a client. This article generated criticism from web developers and information architects who felt that the technologies described in the article were not new, but rather had existed in Microsoft Internet Explorer since 1998 as IXmlHttpRequest and supported with IXMLDOMDocument/DOMDocument. (For discussion of Ajax, please refer to the Ajax page.)

In May, 2006 Garrett was awarded Wired Magazine's Rave Award in the field of technology.

  1. ^ Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Adaptive Path (2005-02-18). Retrieved on 2006-08-01.
  2. ^ New Web-based Technology Draws Applications, Investors. Wall Street Journal (2005-11-03). Retrieved on 2006-06-14.

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