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September 01, 2003
Umm, not exactly?
I suppose it's me, but it seems to me that MIT is confused about information architecture and information design: Information design can be defined as the art and science of structuring and classifying web sites and intranets to help people find and manage information. Information Architecture is the process or organizing and labeling content in a way your audience will understand. I still haven't got past the (to me, compelling) idea that IA is about finding information in a site or info product and ID is about using information once it is found.
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It looks like they got it switched around. As for the "finding" and "using," I've always seen it this way (to put it in simplistic terms): The user is like a mouse in a maze. The information architect helps the mouse get to the cheese. The information designer helps get the cheese into the mouse. -- Posted by dave p. on September 2, 2003 02:22 PM
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