[Sigia-l] So, how did you become a [Information Architect|UsabilityEngineer|Interface Designer|etc.]?

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Scott Nelson:

> there is certainly a difference  between Information Architecture for the web
> and Information  Architecture for (an example only) a CD-Rom based learning
> experience  or Encyclopedia.

There is?
 
> As a simple example, an Interface  I'd suggest for an encyclopedia in
> a kiosk environment would be drastically different than one I'd
> suggest for a a Browser based platform independent encyclopedia.

Whoa! That's like saying a small portraiture painter cannot do a large mural
on a building façade and that the mental faculties necessary to handle the
former are somehow drastically different than the latter simply because the
artifact is 100X larger or may have multiple vanishing points, etc.

Last year I did strategy/architecture/interface design for both a
multi-million dollar enterprise app for financial professionals as well as
an online interactive make-up studio for the leading European cosmetics
company. While I live in the middle of Wall Street, trust me there are
gazillion people with deeper understanding of financial instruments than I
and my entire knowledge of eyeliners and mascara can easily fit into the
period at the end of this sentence. I promise I used the same brain cells
for each product.
 
> Too often, however, people can confuse Information Architecture with
> Usability. 

You're absolutely right on that one.

Ziya
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