As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Personal life
Jesse James Garrett grew up in Florida. Career
Jesse James Garrett is a co-founder of Adaptive Path a user experience strategy and design firm and co-founded the Information Architecture Institute. Garrett thought of the term when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to a client.

Jesse James Garrett is a user experience designer.