[Sigia-l] NextD takes a slash at "Findability, InformationArchitecture"

[David Malouf]

Lee, who in the world are you talking about?
Who are the "ivory-tower"?

I'm big on saying the IA Community has issues around expansion, but as
someone who has been around both inside and outside the IA community
for awhile, I don't buy this. I'm sorry, but show me something real in
that statement.

I also take real offense to this, since I know many of those who would
be considered in that "tower" personally and they have done nothing
but reach out.

Lou Rosenfeld co-founded UXNet which is all about collaboration
Peter Merholz was all about the Expereience Design stuff early on
which created DUX and brought together the IDEA conference in an
effort to help collaboration take place
Christina Wodtke has been kickin' ass at B&A bringing in more and more
complex voices to that zine.
Victor Lombardi has definitely moved from IA to strategic and business
and brings this back to the IA world over and over again.

Who are these people in the tower?

Seriously, I find this to be irresponsible, which is why many in the
IA community are so angry at GKvP's article in the first place. It
comes from a place of really not knowing who is the IA community at
all.

(I bet this defense of the IA community came as a surprise to some.)

-- dave


On 4/6/07, Lee Hsieh <lhsieh at simple-clarity.com> wrote:
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> ..other than the turgid prose, the overall meaning is spot on.  There is still a narrow, 'ivory-tower' mindset among a number of practicing IAs which can be largely attributed to a few, vocal individuals in the past who cared more about self-promotion than cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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> As for the pdf format, it makes sense. if i spent a whole afternoon writing 6-page rebuttal, i certainly wouldn't want to make easy for others to copy/paste my thoughts out of context.
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