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Fear of Design
Christina Wodtke writes in Boxes and Arrows, “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? Information Architecture is design.” She goes on to say, “Usability is criticism.� and “User research informs design.”
I would actually argue that usability engineering and user research have evolved in advance of IA. They have run a course from niche profession, to mainstream, to niche again. During the course of this evolution their skills have largely been absorbed and integrated into the typical design process. I’m definitely on the hook for an essay on the subject. Stay tuned!
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