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> This really bothers me because it is so untrue and we've spent countless
> hours as a group outlining the differences between the two.


Agreed. I rarely do IA work, and although I do take on that role on
occasion, I wouldn't dare call myself an IA.

Christina Wodtke all but demolishes the distinction between IA and IxD in
her book, *Information Architecture*, but it's unsettling to me. On the web,
maybe those lines blur a lot more than in other types of design, but my
specialty has always been in *designing **interaction*, not architecting
information. There is definitely a difference. I design how people will
interact with web products and services based on an understanding of why
they might do so. Information is certainly part of that, but I'm less
concerned with the information than how people will encounter it in the
context of some interactive experience.

-r-
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