In preparation for migration of content to a new CMS the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) engaged Adam Ungstad for his expertise in information architecture and content strategy to make their web content more relevant, readable and understandable. In the initial phases of the project Ungstad completed an inventory of selected sub sites within the www.wmo.int domain […]
Projects
Enterprise Taxonomy of Official Documents for FIFA
Football’s governing body, FIFA, required a set of classifications and definitions for the official documents they’ve created – all 70,000 of them. Over the course of 6 months Adam Ungstad worked with stakeholders from across this dynamic organization to build consensus on a set of terms, classes, hierarchy and definitions that describe the content they produce. […]
Data Standards: Mailing, Delivery and Residential Addresses for the Province of British Columbia
Working as a Senior Information Architect with the Office of the Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia I developed enterprise data standards for Mailing, Delivery and Residential Addresses. From a data modelling perspective addresses are a challenging entity – they are fundamental to many business activities, yet most systems capture them in […]
Book: Secret Lakes of Southern Vancouver Island
Secret Lakes of Southern Vancouver Island is a non-fiction guidebook published in June of 2012 by Ungstad Information Architects. Writing a book is by no means a small project, and involves the input of many different experts – exactly the kind of project we are best at. Adam Ungstad researched and wrote the book between […]
Website Design & Build for Arbutus Cove Construction
In order to build trust with potential clients Arbutus Cove Construction made it a priority to showcase the scale and quality of projects they had completed for previous clients. The result is a website showing their work through a selection of tools including flash sliders, 360 degree virtual tours, youtube videos and impressive photographs. Portfolios […]
Living Water Smart Blog
Throughout the later half of 2009 I was lucky enough to be a part of the team that created the Province of British Columbia’s first “blogs .” It was an exciting endeavour – it meant using an open-source platform, WordPress, for the first time, and commenting enabled a new tool for citizen engagement, in this case […]
TimeTracker: Tracking time and projects
The TimeTracker is a system I built that tracks time spent on projects for a team. Staff fill out timesheets stating which projects, work packages and tasks they spent their time doing. The system has reports for management and staff. Staff can also assign notes to a task, book vacations, manage team members, and view […]