On Mar 28, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Milan Guenther wrote:
I can't make out a big difference in topics on the iai-members list compared to this list, maybe sometimes someone writes "Taxonomy", and there is less traffic.
Ask yourself: which mailing lists focus on their discipline? On the IxDA list, the topics may occasionally be stupid and redundant, but at least for the most part they are focused on interaction design specific issues. On SIG-IA and IAI, thanks to the legacy of so-called "Big IA" (aka a land grab for all of UX), you'd be hard pressed to tell what the core topic is.
One could see this, and the swarm of IAs now wanting to be called UX Designers, as an unspoken admission that the discipline of information architecture is pretty limited in practice. That even the most IA of IAs with library science degrees who work on large web structures probably only spend a small percent of their time doing "information architecture" (the organization and structuring of information systems).
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