[Sigia-l] IAs in Wall Street Journal

[Richard Hill]

Story in Wall Street Journal of 5/4/04, page B1:

Designing a Better Presidential Daily Brief, about redesigning the PDF for
greater readability.

..."Information Architects" as they are also known, say far too many
e-mails, memos and presentations...

"...  burying the point behind what information consultant Peter Morville
calls a giant wall of text..."

"According to Christina Wodtke, president of the trade organization AIfIA...

Also cites Tufte, Wurman, Janice Fraser, etc.

Final line -- "A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency declined to
comment.

Key on front page: "Fonts on the Front Lines: Bush has been taken to task
for ignoring the infamous Presidential Daily Briefing on bin Laden's plans.
Now the document itself comes in for criticism, as 'information architects'
critique its graphic display."

Dick

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