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

[Ziya Oz]

Christopher Fahey:

> VanPatter's critique that the IA community is hostile to design, IMHO, has a
> grain of truth...

"grain"? How about a boulder the size of Idaho? :-)

It's extremely difficult to approach this controversy without getting
personal, because most of the people intertwined in the story are propelled
by a business model of incessant self-promotion and land-grabbing: so they
feel compelled to reduce everything to the personal. In the name of comity
(and the fact that I'm about to go out for my daily run so I need to be calm
:-) I'll mercifully refrain from rehashing what's in the archives for all to
see.

However, I think history won't be kind to the LIS faction of IA that tried
to steer it away from the holistic process of Design to a pseudo-scientific
orthodoxy, rendering IAs as operational apparatchiks drowning in a sea of
academic babble and deliverables. I suspect Dante has already reserved a
reception area for those involved. :-)

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Ziya

In design, interaction is the last resort.