Design Matters

This is a list of resources on access to information covering topics such as labeling, search, taxonomies, and metadata. (more…)

Agile-usability Yahoo Group. Jeff Patton. Posted June 2005. (more…)

The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) held the first European Information Architecture Summit, Building Communities, at the Tulip Inn, Brussels, Belgium, 15-16 October 2005.

The objective of the Summit was to build the IA community in Europe by bringing together a number of disciplines and practitioner communities in a stimulating environment for debate with opportunities to establish cooperation. This community is not limited by language or region, and encompasses specialisations including designing for mobile devices and multilingual solutions.

Examples of activities of community members include, but are not limited to, developing the IA practice in an organisation or country by documenting methods, applying IA principles to European-focused platforms, providing multilingual solutions and designing devices like interactive TV or mobile devices. The goal was to explore work concerning new features, design elements, methods or processes, controversial topics, and work in progress. The call for papers was posted in June, 2005 by the ID-IA SIG.

During the week of December 5, 2005 the SIG-ia list of ASIS&T and the Single Sourcing SIG list of STC had discussions of job descriptions for information architects. The information here is generalized from resources mentioned in those discussions and other information. (more…)

In 2005, ID SIG member Art Ignacio analyzed job postings for information architects and developed the following list of skills called for most frequently. (more…)

The Information Architecture Institute provides job listings and other employment resources:

• job board
• mentoring program
• competency survey
• salary survey

The IAwiki has links to additional salary surveys for information architects.

You can also find employement listings for information architects on OK/Cancel.

These links are to lists of degree programs. If you know of other listings of degree programs in fields related to information design, please leave a comment. (more…)

The links in this list of websites of related professional organizations were validated in 2005. If you have an update or an addition, please leave a comment. (more…)

According to William Safire writing in the New York Times on May 6, 2001, Richard Saul Wurman says he invented the term information architect in 1975, when he was national chairman of the American Institute of Architects convention, called “The Architecture of Information.” The source of this information was on the ASIST SIG-IA website: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIA/definition.html