Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The “Evolution of a Mindset” Part 2 of 2

Author: Meg Cole

is a graphic designer-turned writer-turned Webbie-turned information architect. She recently joined the content team at the National Association of REALTORS®, which will soon begin a massive inventory and redesign of the association's 400,000+ Web pages. She can be reached at mcole (at) megcole.com.

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Foundational Thinking / Process and Methods

Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The “Evolution of a Mindset” Part 2 of 2

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Part 2: The intense focus on the user experience differentiates websites from printed products—and information architects from print designers and writers—more than anything else. Information architects must think like print designers and writers—and they must do what print designers and writers do—on a much bigger scale, in “N dimensions.”

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Foundational Thinking / Workplace and Career

Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The “Evolution of a Mindset” Part 1 of 2

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Part 1: My entrée into the web world—Spaceland, or “Hyperspace”—was not a smooth one; in fact, it was downright mind-bending. My personal journey from designing and writing for print media to becoming an information architect for websites conjures up images of Flatland, written by Edwin A. Abbott, an English clergyman, educator, and Shakespearean scholar (1884).

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