After running DC-based boutique design firm EightShapes for 18 years, Dan struck out on his own, starting Curious Squid Design Lab to continue providing high quality information architecture and UX consulting to enterprise organizations.

Through Curious Squid, Dan helps product teams incorporate IA into their design processes and level-up their information architecture skills.

Dan is the author of three UX books, including Practical Design Discovery. He wrote the Eight Principles of Information Architecture, which he eventually expanded into the Information Architecture Lenses, a tool to help designers apply IA thinking to their work. You can find his extensive writing about user experience design, design discovery, and information architecture on Medium and LinkedIn.

He currently co-hosts and produces the podcast Unchecked, the architecture of disinformation. Dan’s passion for information architecture is eclipsed only by his enthusiasm for tabletop games.