Monday, April 20, 2009

10th IA Summit Gets a Shakeup by User Intelligence (Netherlands)

Time to let go and move on…

“Information architecture does not exist as a profession. As an area of interest and inquiry? Sure. As your favorite part of your job? Absolutely. But it's not a profession. […]

There's no such thing as an interaction designer either. There are no information architects. There are no interaction designers. There are only, and only ever have been, user experience designers.” Jesse James Garrett – Closing Keynote at the IA Summit 2009.
The theme of this year’s seminal IA Summit was ‘Expanding our Horizons’ and it lived up to this motif in some unexpected ways.

Read the full paper or visit the UXalliance website.

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