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Book Review: Ambient Findability by Peter Morville

Morville looks at how wayfinding strategies developed in the offline world and how they’ve evolved online. Unsurprisingly, he finds many problems but also proposes many approaches for potentially solving those problems.

It’s refreshing to see topics such as SEO and Web site usability viewed through this broader lens. Though the book offers a number of concrete tips and suggestions, Morville tends to lob them like grenades, blowing up conventional wisdom, then effortlessly moving on to his next subject. Blink and you could miss these gems. This is definitely not your conventional how-to book.

It’s also rare to find a book that makes the internecine squabbling about various metadata standards downright fascinating. Morville’s musings on the future, including the emerging semantic Web and whether it will be a salvation or a massive failure, are also a great read.

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