Design Matters

By Barbara J. D’Angelo, Student Member, Texas Tech. U., January 2006

When I switched professions from librarianship to technical communication two years ago, many friends and colleagues warned me that I would be leaving behind the comfort and safety of a profession in which I had been trained for one that was unknown. But despite their concerns, I was certain I was making the right decision and that I would feel right at home in my new profession both academically and in practice. I was not completely new to field; I had been teaching as an adjunct for a technical communication program for a few years and was familiar with the parallels and overlapping areas of concern and how my skills and knowledge as a librarian complemented and fit with my new field. (more…)

By Ramesh Aiyyangar, India chapter
Reprinted from Indus newsletter of the India chapter STC, March-April 2005

While the field of information architecture (IA) has been around and growing for years in software, engineering, and library science, very few people understand exactly what is IA? Why do we need information architects? (more…)

This list of opportunities was initially posted in 2005. If you have additions or corrections please leave a comment. (more…)

This is a list of conferences specifically focused on information design and information architecture.

For events after December 2005, please visit the events calendar being compiled at this time by the Online SIG at http://www.stcsig.org/oi/on_conferences.htm and on http://stc-on.org/online Please note that announcement of events is a work in progress and this post will be modified from time to time. It may even be deleted eventually. 

This list of conferences was posted in 2005. Many of these events take place regularly every two years. If you would like to update this list for 2007, please contact the website manager. The email address is on the Leadership Team page.

Events are listed from latest to earliest. (more…)

We found this article on information architecture in STC newsletters in 2005, and are re-posting the link here:

“Information Architecture of Content Management” by Ann Rockley, Silicon Valley Connection, September, 2005.

To gather information for the next edition of “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web,” Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld have been surveying the IA community.

The third survey, “Software for IA,” is now open. (more…)

Concept maps
http://cmap.ihmc.us/
http://cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-283.pdf%20
Tecnology news in Wired magazine
Posted June 2005 (more…)

Argus Center for Information Architecture Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld through 2001. Posted prior to March 2003.

Boxes and Arrows. Posted September 2006. (more…)

This list was originally posted in November 2005. If you have the URL, please leave a comment.

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (more…)

Morrogh, Earl. 2003. Information architecture: an emerging 21st century profession. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Posted May 2005. (more…)