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…
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. Hadid is a British-Iraqi architect, artist and designer. Hadid, after studying mathematics in Beirut, enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. Hadid’s major works include the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, the Broad Art Museum, Rome’s MAXXI Museum, and the Guangzhou…
Jerry Lawson: Game Changer
Jerry Lawson was an engineer and game designer who was out of a stereotype of engineers in 1970s America (IGN). During the 1970s, he was one of the few Black engineers.With his parents’ dedication to education, he was able to cultivate his natural interest in engineering (IGN). His first-grade teacher, Ms. Guble, influenced him to…
IA in IxD
As an interaction designer, I have participated in the process of Informational Architecture. For example, I have used task and user flows, concept and site maps to organize content and user stories. Design-wise, I have use wireframes to organize this content visually and hierarchical. This back-end design ensures that users will effectively be able to…
A little UI here a little UX there
One of the first things I learned about Interaction Design was about Information Architecture. We had started to understand it by using index cards marked with things you could find in a grocery store. We were tasked to group these cards in a way that made sense and then to compare it with a partner….
Organizing concepts early in the design process using IA
Interaction Designers are very different from graphic designers as they focus their intentions for the design on user experiences interacting with the product or software. This means that a big part of an Interaction Designer’s job surrounds the planning, development, and organization of their concepts with many revisions and iterations before even beginning the prototyping…
Sitemap and IA – How Interaction designers become good at IA
Information architects work with “the intention to inform“, trying to find a good balance among content, users, and context of use. Often times, information architects need to deal with a large amount of data. But just as R.S>. Wurman said: “I call things information only if they inform me, not if they are just collections…
Giorgia Lupi – An Advocate of Data Humanism
Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and data-driven researcher. She is currently a Partner at Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design consultancy, and a co-author of Dear Data, a collection of hand-drawn data visualizations. With her humanistic approach to data, in her practice, Lupi seeks to humanize and confronts the impersonality of data, designing captivating visual…
IA in BestBuy
Interaction Design features a direction to improve a user’s experience through graphics, such as buttons and micro-interactions. On the contrary, Information Architecture focuses on defining the standards for information management, making coherent and straightforward labeling so that businesses could structure the data and understand the relationship between data. Users could access the data in a…
Cipe Pineles
(June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) Cipe Pineles was a pioneer in the world of graphic design, breaking several glass ceilings as a woman in a male-dominated profession. But her long career working as an editorial designer established her as an extraordinary talent who forever changed that world through her innovations, especially for magazines….
