[ID Discuss] IA Article: Rose by any other name...

[Christina Wodtke]

Your comment posted; we seem to have a bug in the feedback mechanism we're
currently tracking down.


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From: "Andrei Herasimchuk" <andrei at adobe.com>
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Subject: [ID Discuss] IA Article: Rose by any other name...


> The Boxes and Arrow archives seemed to be screwed up, so I'm posting a
> response to this article here in the hopes it might in a round about
> way get back to B&A.
>
> The article can be found here:
> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/
> information_architecture_a_rose_by_any_other_name.php
>
> I guess I'm left with two questions after reading this article:
>
> 1) If you replaced the word "information architect" and "IA" with
> "interface designer" and "UI" would you have the same article? If so,
> then why not just use those terms instead of constantly referring to
> the job as "IA" throughout the article?
>
> 2) I think the author somewhat neglects the issues on who makes the
> final decisions in any design. After all, in the business world,
> someone has to be accountable and make the final call. The real
> question here, how do titles and job function also affect the decision
> making process on a project?
>
> If a self-proclaimed IA has no background or training in visual design,
> should they make the final call on what icons, typogrpahy and color
> systems to use? Would the author mind if a self-proclaimed UX person
> told them that the entire taxonomy proposed was simply wrong, when it
> seems quite clear that UX person had little background or trianing in
> that sort of work?
>
> Andrei Herasimchuk
> andrei at adobe.com
>
> work: http://www.adobe.com
> personal: http://www.designbyfire.com
>
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