[Sigia-l] Being considerate of others (Off Topic Posts)

[Stewart Dean]

Okay - good question, I should clarify but I should also say I don't want to 
start another existentialist crisis about what IAs do thread.

As an IA my role is to create structure, define functionality and create UI 
schemas. User experience is beyond the scope of IA and user interface design 
is a part of it.

Now I get bombarded by user experience stuff on different topics form 
different angles and dip into different areas when I need to. What I'd like 
to see here is more stuff on the structuring of user experience here, be it 
information, entertainment, experiential or functional. What has been 
appearing a lot recently are quite old 'that's cool stuff' that I've already 
got a few weeks ago from several other sources.

I don't want Listera booted but less noise and more stuff about IA - that is 
the structuring of user experiences - would be preferable.  Interface stuff 
as it relates to the creation of, say, a Web 2.0 application is fine and 
would be on topic.  For example what people think of www.live.com ?

My feeling is that information architecture has existed long enough for 
poeple to know it's rough perameters and what is relevant and pressing, it's 
just frustrating to see most of the discussion here off topic when there is 
so much left undiscussed.

In short more signal and less noise.

Stewart Dean






>From: "Alexander Johannesen" <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com>
>To: "Stewart Dean" <stew8dean at hotmail.com>
>CC: lyle.kantrovich at gmail.com, listera at rcn.com, sigia-l at asis.org
>Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Being considerate of others (Off Topic Posts)
>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:04:58 +1100
>
>On 3/9/06, Stewart Dean <stew8dean at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Instead there's a lot of noise, mostly from one prolific poster, most of
> > which have nothing to do with IA and are better suited to other lists
> > devoted to user experience and user interface design.
>
>Um ... what's IA? Something isolated from UX and UID?
>
>
>Alex
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