[Sigia-l] Growing Up IA - a Friday-ish question

[tOM Trottier]

It also depends on 
 - who is available when for interviews and review
 - urgency of particular areas

Ordinarily, I would start at the bottom - what are the user needs.

The diagram is fatally flawed for IA activities, though. It lacks information architecture. It only talks 
about information presentation and "intuitive" access. It does not talk about the modeling of the 
underlying business processes and information flow. 

tOM

On Friday, August 25, 2006 at 11:02,
Laurie Gray <laurie.gray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had an interesting discussion this morning and I'd like your input.
> Using Jesse's Elements of User Experience diagram as a reference
> (http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdf), would you say it's
> more common for IA's, in the course of their professional development,
> to
> 1. Start by gathering expertise at the bottom of the diagram and work
> their way up (implying that they start only with knowing only site
> objectives/user needs and "growing up" from there)
> 2. Start as a thin vertical slice of the diagram and expanding
> sideways (implying that they know a little bit about everything and
> expand on everything from there)
> Or...
> 3. Start as a dot on one area of the diagram and expanding outward in
> all directions from there (implying that they start with an
> interest/competence in one area and expand out from there)
> 
> Think about this in 2 dimensions - your own professional growth if
> you're not new to the profession AND the way that you think that most
> IA's new to the profession are growing...
> 
> And, if you're an IA who ONLY works within one or two levels of that
> diagram, please let me know that, too.
> Thanks!
> Laurie
> 
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