Not so long ago, on my personal site I posted a little entry on design. And a comment was made: “IA is not design.” This sentence has sat vibrating in my head for months. It speaks of bravado in the face of fear. But why should Information Architects fear design?
Continue readingAs I write this the Police’s “Synchronicity” is on the radio and that’s a good way of summing up some of the interesting developments experienced during the past few months.
Continue readingIn last month’s welcome, I set out to describe Boxes and Arrows purpose and goals. On a line by itself I stated this is not a place for jargon. I felt that was important enough to call out. I certainly am being called to task for that.
Continue readingMany months ago, we started with a crazy dream of a magazine that would tear down the fences we so hastily built between our crafts. An intelligent and jargon-free meeting place for practitioners that would make us all a bit smarter.
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