LATCH

There are various ways in which items can be sorted: by location, alphabetically, by time, by category or by hierarchy. page , archive

Andrew C. Robinson at Parsons School of Design keeps a blog for his Design 4 class too. He’s got a great page explaining LATCH — Wurman’s articulation on methods for organizing information (Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy). Robinson provides a variety examples, some of which get pretty complex. archive

Speaking of complexity, you might enjoy this clip from High Fidelity.

John Cusack’s character has a complex system for organizing his record collection… but when you think about it, he is still using one of the LATCH methods of organization …