Times are indeed changing, and in many practices the IA is now responsible for much more than taxonomies and functional wireframes. We see more cross discipline design work.
There is also a growing trend towards using some form of Agile for development. The IA becomes responsible for representing the end-to-end experience as both the voice of the user and the owner. In this less documented more Socratic method of application development with the addition of the expanding experiential palette, the term IA doesn't begin to cover the actual role. We also have seen a shift in the UCD community towards a recognition of the importance of emotional engagement and aesthetics in the design of web experiences. I think User Experience Designer is a term that encompasses the expanding role of IAs, the broadening view of UCD and moves us back towards Wurman's vision that IA is a creative design discipline that makes complex information and rich systems easy to understand and use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37257 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
