I've added a comment to the Forrester article, inviting enterprise architects to share their definitions via the Explain IA contest...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/ ...it would be great to build bridges between these different frameworks. On a similar note, I'd love to see some entries that show the relationship between information architecture and interaction design. Cheers! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Milan Guenther wrote: > I came across this free paper from Jan 13: > > Forrester Topic Overview: Information Architecture > > > Forrester begins to include the UX-related definition of Information > Architecture in their own definition, and published this paper as an overview > of the IA topic. Very typical for the situation I as consultant often face in > the enterprise context is this statement from a client on page 2: > > “How do I settle the long-standing dispute between Web site designers and > data/information modelers, where Web site designers declare that IA is their > purview and is defined as the structure of our organization’s Web site as > opposed to what IA really is, which is the structure of information across > the enterprise? IA has been hijacked by the Web weenies.” (Enterprise > architect, financial services firm) > > Obviously they don't yet see the EIA developments, since they define UX only > on a application level. However the question remains: how to connect the two > worlds of IA? And: do we need "Enterprise Interaction Design" to further > confuse the world? :-) > > Milan > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
