On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
And yes, I'll be bold enough to say that I don't really see that
much of a difference between IA and IxD. And frankly, I'm not that
interested in spending time creating a divide between the two. I've
been doing them in tandem for over a decade. They have the same goal
in mind—making products easier and more enjoyable to use. The only
real important distinction I see is that IA provides the foundation,
which IxD builds on top of.
In theory, they're different. But in reality, if you're doing one,
you're doing the other. Yeah, I said it.
This really bothers me because it is so untrue and we've spent
countless hours as a group outlining the differences between the two.
The methodologies, history, and focus are all different.
Just because you do both things doesn't make them the same. I'd posit
yours is a very web-centric POV. The farther away from the web you go,
the less information architecture work you are likely to do. It's
easily less than 1 percent of my work. There's a reason no one at frog
or IDEO has the title Information Architect.
Dan
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