Zuzana Licko is a type designer and one of the first designers to use the Mackintosh computer. Zuzana Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated with her parents to the U.S. in 1968. She graduated with a degree in Graphic Communications from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Licko’s father…
The indispensability of IA
Information architecture has an indispensable position in interaction design. The first thing we learned in the system course last semester was Information architecture. Information architecture refers to a series of organic processing ideas such as overall planning, design, and arrangement of information in a specific content. Information architecture can guide users through a lot of…
Zaha Hadid Biography
Zaha Hadid was born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq, and died March 31, 2016, in Miami, Florida, U.S. She is the daughter of Mohammed Hadid and the sister of Fulath and Haithem Hadid. Zaha studied at the American University of Beirut. After graduating in mathematics in Beirut in the 1970s, she studied architecture in…
Information Architecture
In my opinion, IA design follows very similar patterns to flowcharting: Add shapes and connect them with lines in an organized fashion to a single document. The challenge when building IA is in understanding how the app or website actually works from the user’s perspective, and how to organize that information into a readable, legible format. I…
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was born in Wexford in 1878. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London and the Académie Julian in Paris where she lived for most of her life. Gray collaborated with Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese expert in decorative lacquer work for several years. In 1910 Gray opened a workshop with Sugawara…
The importance of IA
Information architecture is the practice of determining the arrangement of portions of something to be understandable. There are five types of organizing information in IA, which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. Information architectures are on the websites, apps, and software, even the physical places we spend time in. IA helps people to find…
IA and Interaction Design
Information Architecture is very different from the Architecture we usually know. However, it has a strong connection with interaction design. As a student who majors in interaction design, I didn’t know how important IA for interaction designers in the past. However, after I dive into more project I just realize Information Architecture is like the…
Can’t Live without IA
Working as an interaction designer, I see IA as one of the most important parts of the design process. When I first learned IA in the foundation class, I didn’t realize that IA could be done much more than I expected until I got stuck with the system thinking for the experience design. Before, I…
