[Sigia-l] inviting, welcoming, open, approachable?

[Will Parker]

On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:24 AM, Eric Scheid wrote:
>
> quoted from:
>
>     http://www.communication.org.au/dsblog/?p=30
>
>> 4. The term accessible covers what today’s information architects  
>> refer to as
>> ‘findability’. But accessible has another implication, one of  
>> inviting people
>> in, being welcoming, open, and approachable. I may be wrong, but I  
>> see no
>> reference to these all-important characteristics in the information
>> architecture toolbag.
>
> comments?

Haven't time at the mo' to check the link, but I've settled on the  
term 'learnability' as a vast simplification of 'a design that most  
users in the intended audience will find easy to map to existing  
mental models of something they already know how to do or interact  
with'.

- Will

Will Parker
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