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Fragmentation Fragmentation into multiple sites,
domains, and identities is a major problem. Users don’t know which site to visit for which purpose.
Findability Users can’t find what they need from
the home page, but most users don’t come through the front door. They enter via a web search or a deep link, and are confused by what they find. Even worse, most never use the Library, because its resources aren’t easily findable.
“With respect to learning by failure, it’s all fun and games until someone gets a larval cyst in the brain.”
“There is a problem in discussing systems only with words. Words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one at a time in linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously.”
Food Scarcity(overpopluation)
T T
Inflow(birth rate)
Outflow(death rate)
Stock(population)
T T
Disease(canine parvovirus)
Immigration(via ice bridge)
Parasites(moose tick)
Weather(mild winter)
Inflow(birth rate)
Outflow(death rate)
Stock(population)
The design and management of information systems.
Understanding the nature of information in systems.
If you think information architecture hasn’t changed since the polar bear, you’re simply not paying attention.
“There’s a secret about MRIs and back pain: the most common problems physicians see on MRI and attribute to back pain – herniated, ruptured, and bulging discs – are seen almost as commonly on MRIs of healthy people without back pain.”
“If you want to accelerate someone’s death, give him a personal doctor. I don’t mean provide him with a bad doctor. Just pay for him to choose his own. Any doctor will do.”
“It is now my suggestion that many people may not want information, and that they will avoid using a system precisely because it gives them information…If you have information, you must first read it. You must then try to understand it. Understanding the information may show that your work was wrong, or may show that your work was needless. Thus not having and not using information can lead to less trouble and pain than having and using it.”Calvin Mooers (1959)
The limits of information
“Where architects use forms and spaces to design environments
for inhabitation, information architects use nodes and links to create
environments for understanding.”
Jorge Arango, Architectures (2011)
“Each step is a potential place: place to
worship, place to wash, place to sell, place
to sleep, place to die and be burned.”
Donlyn Lyndon (1962)
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