As a graduate student, he developed a prototype for a digital facsimile of a rare copy of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Today, he’s involved in research to better understand place-making approaches from the built environment and how they can be applied to the architecture of complex digital ecosystems, and he teaches the information architecture course at the University of Michigan School of Information. A frequent user of airports and wearer of conference badges, Dan likes coffee an awful lot and in April 2016 began serving a two-year term as president of the Information Architecture Institute.