[Sigia-l] Usability Testing comments from Giga

[Boniface Lau]

> Behalf Of 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?
> 

Structure is about how things, in this case information, are organized.

A system is a collection of things working towards a particular
purpose. 

"System" is often used to indicate things capable of interacting with
their environment while a structure does not. To make an information
structure alive, you need to add an interactive component, like a
navigation system, that knows the information structure.


Boniface