One of the main goals of interaction design is helping users get somewhere to achieve their goals easily and efficiently. As interaction designers, we aim to create a user-friendly experience. For the information architecture (IA), it focuses on structuring and organizing the information. A good interaction design always based on a direct and structured information…
Information Design
As a student studying Interaction Design, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to create my own information architecture, but every person on the web has been exposed to some form of it. Information architects determine the needs and requirements of users and creators, as well as how to structure and map content out. A website…
Shigeru Miyamoto
People have paid me a lot of lip service, calling me a genius story teller or a talented animator, and have gone so far as to suggest that I try my hand at movies, since my style of game design is, in their words, quite similar to making movies. But I feel that I am…
Information Architecture for IXD project
One of my first encounters with Information Architecture, to be more exact is the first encounter I actually recognized that is my first official UX project from Kate Rutter’s UX Foundation class. The brief for this project is to create a tool on Amazon that enables faculties to efficiently collate items into kits and students…
Hedy Lamarr: More Than Meets the Eye
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, better known as Hedy Lamarr (1924-2000), was an Austrian-American actress, film producer, and inventor. She was not only known as “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World”, but invented frequency hopping spread spectrum technology that is used today in cell phones, Wi-Fi, CMDA, GPS, and Bluetooth, among others (Massie). Although she…
My understanding of IA in IxD
I think information architecture is a kind of mindset or a pattern. It also supports interaction design and exists in interaction design. IA is one of the very important pillars of interaction design. There is no doubt that information architecture and interaction design are strongly related. But the two are also very different. Information structure…
Mabel Addis
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History November 24, 2020 Mabel Addis Mabel Addis was a teacher, writer, and video game designer. She was born in Mount Vernon on May 21, 1912. Mabel graduated from Brewster High School in 1929 and she earned a bachelor’s degree in ancient history from Barnard College in 1933. After that,…
IA & IxD
Richard Saul Wurman used five words to explain the tools for information architecture in the video “The Five Types of Organizing Information” which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. These five words he mentioned in the short video are really easy for me to understand. Information architecture focused on solving the basic problems of…
Darcy DiNucci
Darcy DiNucci is a web designer, author and expert in user experience. As a head of user experience at Ammunition, DiNucci focuses on designing end-to-end experiences that crystalize a business’s value for the people who engage with it. DiNucci’s work has been instrumental in the success of projects for Adobe, Intel, the University of California,…
Clement Mok
Clement Mok is a designer, instigator, and consultant. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design Graphic Design program. He was a creative director at Apple during the early ’80s, and he starts to transfer from a graphic designer to more like an information architect also interaction designer. During almost five and a half…
Women in Programming: Corrinne Yu
Until beginning her career as a technical programmer, Corrinne Yu attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, to study electrical engineering. Corrinne Yu is an awesome individual. People have most known her as the principal programmer for the Halo team at Microsoft. Unlike what people expected from a petite Asian woman, she dresses like a rock…
Brenda Romero – Game Designer
Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history’s most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences. TED Speaker Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981. Brenda has worked with a variety of digital game companies as a game designer, creative…
Norma Merrick Sklarek
As the first African-American woman to hold the architect license in New York and the first woman to earn a license in California, Norma Merrick Sklarek was also the first African-American woman who was selected as a member of the American Institute of Architects. Norma Merrick Sklarek was born on April 15, 1926, in Harlem,…
The Need for Information Architecture
The importance of Information Architecture is described by Richard Saul Wurman as a way of “creating of systemic, structural, and orderly principles to make something work–the thoughtful making of either artifact, or idea, or policy that informs because it is clear.” It helps breakdown complex and/or large amounts of information by allowing us to map…
Quick and Dirty
As an Interaction Design student, I’ve learned to appreciate the exhilerating practice of rapid iteration. There is something so fun about producing work as quickly as possible and receiving feedback at rapidfire pace, repeating the process to determine the trajectory of a project. Within my work, I have participated in the process of Information Architecture…
How “Candy Sorting” Helped Me Understand IA
Words like “data” and “system” frighten me: whenever I see these two words, I feel like they have to do with complex materials and information or stuff that requires much effort to figure out. When I encounter any academic material with these two words, my enthusiasm would be deflated by half. Just like when I…
How an Interaction Designer Process of Information Architecture
What is Information Architecture? Information architecture is the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable. Information Architecture is the back bone or blueprint in laying out a road map for which information go where. It is the arrangement of information that distinguish its discipline from interaction design. IA would…
Biography of Timothy Bardlavens
Timothy Bardlavens was born in Greensboro, North Carolina but raised in Colombia NC. Bardlavens belittles his start as just being a gay black boy from the South and going to a state school no one has heard about, Coastal Carolina University. Bardlavens started as an English major. He wanted to become a Chief and Editor…
Benjamin Evans – Designs for Everyone to Belong
Benjamin Earl Evans now works as an Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb. Before that, he has a winding career path as a designer with a background in the performing arts. He pursued his career as an actor, not a designer, from the very beginning. In 2006, Evans graduated from the London Academy of Music &…
IA is Crucial to IXD
The biggest difference between information architecture and interaction design is that information architecture focuses on making complex clear by arranging information while interaction design focuses on creating smoother and better user experience. The information architecture is very supportive and even crucial to interaction design. When we visit a random shopping website, we can always see…