[spam] Re: [spam] Re: The Value of "IA" or Whatnot, was Re: [Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?

[christina wodtke]

> So. You have contradicted yourself.

it was not a therefore, it was an also. you seemed to be interested in ROI
and design, and justification for designing well. perhaps I misread you.

BTW, I'm not sure about the subject line-- I was speaking more about the
value of design as a larger concern, including IA. Trying to sidestep that
old "what is IA question", yknow. Perhaps we can refocus this-- can you tell
us more about what you learned at ED that would influence our choices as we
justify good IA practices? I missed out since I choose to ride the star trek
experience and watch Clint Eastwood movies hungover instead. :-)

anyhow.

my point continues to be: this stuff is complex.  easy answers are probably
incomplete.  Absolute statements are probably untrustworthy. I suspect we
are only beginning to understand what the web is about. Is it a library? A
software platform? A gallery? A message board? This article begins the
thinking... http://www.lab404.com/media/ but we are  long way from pinning
it down, and I'm not sure if we will. We can pin down what we choose to do
with it at any given moment, that's why I champion the specific
understanding of the nature of your own work without trying to
over-generalize it out. Where that line is between application of relevant
knowledge and over-generalization, I'm not sure.

And I was very wrong, as Ziya pointed out, to say we seek easy answers.
Perhaps rather we are seduced by these catch phrases of design.
Hard questions are really fun to try to understand and answer.
If I found an easy answer I'd get bored and wander off.
Try my hand at a trickier discipline.
Architecture perhaps?


(how was that, ziya? felt a little forced to me...)