Comments on: IA, Design and What is Information? http://banapana.com/from-its-to-bits/ia-design-and-what-is-information This is your mind on media. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Troped http://banapana.com/from-its-to-bits/ia-design-and-what-is-information/comment-page-1#comment-1292 Troped Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:15:48 +0000 http://www.banapana.com/information/ia-design-and-what-is-information#comment-1292 <p>This may seem off the topic, but I also think that what some people are calling <a href="http://www.digitmag.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=2&entryid=233" rel="nofollow">3rd generation</a> interfaces are also going to allow people to get at their information and manipulate it more to suit their needs. I hope to post on this topic coming up soon.</p> This may seem off the topic, but I also think that what some people are calling 3rd generation interfaces are also going to allow people to get at their information and manipulate it more to suit their needs. I hope to post on this topic coming up soon.

]]> By: Joshua Porter http://banapana.com/from-its-to-bits/ia-design-and-what-is-information/comment-page-1#comment-1291 Joshua Porter Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:50:09 +0000 http://www.banapana.com/information/ia-design-and-what-is-information#comment-1291 <p>Your point that information architecture is design dovetails nicely with my piece. I agree completely.</p> <p>Part of the problem is that by focusing on architecting information it is easy to forget that each user comes with their own context...and that building a single architecture (like say a document-based web navigation system) to satisfy this need is almost a fool's errand. </p> <p>The new paradigm of providing sorting, filtering, and aggregation tools for users to let them do the organizing is a much better, and contextually-sensitive, approach. The tools, otherwise known as web applications, are how individual users turn data into information.</p> Your point that information architecture is design dovetails nicely with my piece. I agree completely.

Part of the problem is that by focusing on architecting information it is easy to forget that each user comes with their own context…and that building a single architecture (like say a document-based web navigation system) to satisfy this need is almost a fool’s errand.

The new paradigm of providing sorting, filtering, and aggregation tools for users to let them do the organizing is a much better, and contextually-sensitive, approach. The tools, otherwise known as web applications, are how individual users turn data into information.

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