Gene Smith

Gene is the president of nForm, a user experience strategy, design and development company headquartered in Edmonton, Canada. As a consultant he’s advised Fortune 500 and large public sector clients on interface design, information architecture, website planning and management, and interactive strategy.

Gene is the author of Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web (2008, New Riders), which covers the structure, design and management of tagging systems (and delves into other social software topics as well). You’ll find some of his ideas on tagging and pageless interactions in books like Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition and Ambient Findability.