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SIGIA-L: the line between IA and interaction design
From: Louis Rosenfeld (lou_at_argus-inc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 21:53:22 EST
At the IA2000 conference, Andrea Gallagher of Scient gave a great talk on
interaction design and how it relates to information architecture. Like all
of her other talks, it really got me thinking.
As we try to draw lines around what we as IAs do and don't do, many of us
see a clear distinction between designing transactional systems/applications
(i.e., interaction design) versus the organizing and structuring of data and
text that are more commonly considered information architecture. Put in
more concrete terms: shopping cart = interaction design; product catalog =
information architecture. (Yes, this is a gross over-simplification; please
bear with me for a moment.)
But what about a search system? Is it ID or IA? Hmmm, a search system
certainly looks, smells, and tastes like an application, so it obviously
should be the interaction designer's purview, right? But search systems
help users find information, especially when integrated with other aspects
of the site architecture (e.g., means of browsing), so they're obviously a
core part of the information architecture. Right?
Hmmm...
Louis Rosenfeld / lou_at_argus-inc.com
Argus Associates / http://argus-inc.com / 734.913.0010
Defining information architecture
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