Title: A role with no Edges: The work practices of Information Architects
Abstract: This is not really the abstract but is here as a space holder. (152 words) For those working in technology design environments, information architect is a recently defined job title used to describe the people who are responsible for designing ‘how everything is organised’ (Krug, 2000. p. 4) in a web application. While the recent growth in the use of information architect as a job description implies an established and shared understanding of the meaning of the term this meaning has nevertheless been remarkably contested. As one of the information architects interviewed for this research remarked: ‘It’s just a source of endless idle argument on the newsgroups when the profession could be getting on with better things'. So, our starting point here is that information architecture is at least part of the work that people who are called information architects do and information architecture is a process within the design of systems.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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