This is how customers actually use the Web: They guess. A lot. Once they’ve found a Web site they want, they may bookmark it. If the first few guesses don’t pan out, they may use a search engine. But there’s a lot of guessing going on out there. read more at The name game | Computerworld Story…
Welcome to the new spin of designing spaces. ‘Information Architect’. All the big consulting companies have just found out how to charge other companies a lot of money for the new service. What do you think?…
I Think Therefore IA? by Andrew Dillon and I quote Andrew…”Can we really create a field whose sole purpose is, as some suggested, to ensure adequate navigation of Websites? And even if we could, would it warrant the title architecture? I don’t think so.”
” ‘Information architect’ is a very sexy title, bound to impress one’s friends and family, and certainly a more lucrative professional title than Web designer or librarian. But I find it hard to shake my sense that information architecture currently represents a collective process more accurately than it describes what any individual does. Maybe that doesn’t matter. After all, what is it exactly that information scientists do?”