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Information Architecture: What Does It Mean To You?
By: Scott Rummler

Information architecture is a field of web design that has been getting a lot of attention recently. And with good reason: it is key to making money on the Web. Nobody seems to really know what it is, but I say it's creating blue prints for web sites. Doesn't this happen automatically? No, it doesn't, and this is the main reason why sites fail on customers.

IA is a web design discipline that plans for easy-to-use web sites and software applications, as opposed to just letting graphic designers and technologists do their own thing and hoping the two will mesh in a way that makes sense to the end user. Originally conceived by librarians as an outgrowth of information science, it also sometimes encompasses data and hardware configuration.

What it means to you is this: imagine a site is built. Is it well received? Does it function as intended? If yes, then it has good IA. A completed project will be used by a client. What is the client's perception of it? Probably not as parts of graphic design or technology, but their process of interacting with the structure, logic, and organization of the site. Which sites do you hate most? Probably those that are difficult to use because of the way they are organized. This would be bad IA.

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