[Irtalk] A Brief History of Information Architecture

[Hilton Gibson]

Information architecture (IA) is a professional practice and field of
studies focused on solving the basic problems of accessing, and using, the
vast amounts of information available today. You commonly hear of
information architecture in connection with the design of web sites both
large and small, and when wireframes, labels, and taxonomies are discussed.
As it is today, it is mainly a production activity, a craft, and it relies
on an inductive process and a set, or many sets, of guidelines, best
practices, and personal and professional expertise. In other words,
information architecture is arguably not a science but, very much like say
industrial design, an applied art.

http://journalofia.org/volume3/issue2/03-resmini/
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