Review
"It is a unique privilege to help shape a profession .... Information architecture has emerged from a diverse set of people with skills in structuring information to make it useful, applying their skills to what at first appeared to be a new kind of documentation .... This book not only reviews the profession in order to train new professionals, it is an important contribution to creating it." — Dr. Arnold Lund, Director of Information Architecture, Sapient
""This book provides exactly what is needed at this point in history-a solid framework which I feel the vast majority of practicing information architects will agree with." — Karen Young, Information Architect, IBM
Product Description
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Information Architecture, Information Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Social Informatics, Human-computer Interaction, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Web Design, Communications History, Telecommunications Infrastructure, and for survey courses in Information Science, Telecommunications, Computer Science, and Information and Communication.
This is the first text to explore the roots of the emerging Information Architecture profession. A true foundations text, it introduces students to key innovations in the history of communications systems and technologies leading to the Information Age; Information Age-related problems; information architecture practitioners, educators, and educational programs.