[Sigia-l] Usability Testing comments from Giga

[Peter Boersma]

Boniface wrote:
> When books like "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web"
> mistakenly proclaimed that navigation systems and labeling systems are
> elements of information architecture, usability tests are naturally
> used for testing IA work.

and:
> Genuine IA is about structures. Thus, a natural way to test is
> subjecting the structural specification to various scenarios to see
> how the structures will stand up.

Okay, I'll bite: how are systems and structures different?

Peter
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