Karl A L Smith

human knowledge belongs to the world

Day: February 15, 2012

#Information #Architecture (IA) is not another name for #User #Experience (UX)

IA is not another name for UX User experience (UX) and Information Architecture (IA) are very different and have separate skill sets, processes and outputs. I often talk to people who add IA on the their CV as if it’s…

#Information Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information

A simple website may only include 8 top level pages, 50 secondary and perhaps only 300 tertiary labelled (taxonomy) navigation elements, that’s only 358 entities. However, Information Architecture tends to be associated with the structure and classification of websites, intranets…