Chiara Fox

Chiara Fox is a senior information architect for Adaptive Path. Chiara has developed successful information architectures for intranets, informational websites, and e-commerce sites for Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Chiara specializes in content analysis, metadata and taxonomy development, and building architectures from the bottom up.

Professional Background

Before joining Adaptive Path, Chiara served as the senior information architect for PeopleSoft, an enterprise software company. She implemented a unified information architecture across the public website, customer extranet, and partner extranet in a single CMS. The information architecture was later expanded to include 23 international sites. She also designed the metadata schema for use on all 26 websites. Before joining PeopleSoft, Chiara was an information architect at Argus Associates, a pioneering information architecture design firm.

Past clients and employers include Business Objects, EDS, Globo, IBM, Linden Labs, PeopleSoft, Sony, Target.

Chiara is an active member of the American Society of Information Science and Technology and ACM's local chapter of SIG-CHI, BayCHI. She is also a member of the Information Architecture Institute and serves as co-director of the Institute's IA Library. Chiara received her Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. She spent ten years working in public and scientific libraries as a cataloger and reference librarian before devoting herself to the web full-time.

Upcoming Appearances

August 12-15
Chiara Fox will be attending at UX Week in San Francisco, CA.

September 26-27
Chiara Fox will be presenting at EuroIA in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

October 13-16
Chiara Fox will be presenting at UX Intensive in Copenhagen, Denmark.