Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession [Paperback]

Earl Morrogh (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130967467 | ISBN-13: 978-0130967466 | Publication Date: November 14, 2002 | Edition: 1

This state-of-the-art look at the emerging profession of Information Architecture shows readers from a broad range of technical areas—e.g., visual design, information design, library science, information science, and human-computer interaction —how this new multidisciplinary profession integrates the skills and practices of their respective professions. An important complement to typical IA books (which focus only on the “how to” of designing and building web sites), this foundations book explores IA from its historical roots to its exciting future, showing how this new profession requires a comprehensive knowledge of a highly complex design process, using a variety of media and technologies, for the purpose of creating information environments that are beautiful, valuable, and easy to use. Information Architecture: From Craft to Profession. The Spoken Word. The Written Word. The Printed Word. The Telegraph. The Telephone. The Radio. Television. ENIAC. ERMA. The Alto. The PC Evolution. Internauts. ARPAnet. Email. WWW. Info Glut, Info Trash, Info Hype, and Info Stress. IA: The Process, The Practitioner, The Profession. Educating Information Architects. Envisioning the Future of IA. For Information Architects, Interaction Designers, User Experience Designers, Information Designers, Human-computer Interaction Designers, Web Masters, Interface Designers, Information Scientists, Information Technologists, Information Technology Specialists.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It is a unique privilege to help shape a profession .... Information architecture has emerged from a diverse set of people with skills in structuring information to make it useful, applying their skills to what at first appeared to be a new kind of documentation .... This book not only reviews the profession in order to train new professionals, it is an important contribution to creating it." — Dr. Arnold Lund, Director of Information Architecture, Sapient

""This book provides exactly what is needed at this point in history-a solid framework which I feel the vast majority of practicing information architects will agree with." — Karen Young, Information Architect, IBM

From the Back Cover

The first book to explore the roots of the emerging Information Architecture profession.

A true foundations text, this book introduces the reader to:

• Key innovations in the history of communications and computing
• Technologies leading to the Information Age
• The origins of the World Wide Web
• Information architecture's pioneers
• The emerging profession of information architecture

Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession features:

• An abbreviated history of revolutionary information and communications technologies
• Social and technology-related factors in information creation, communication, storage, and retrieval
• Information Age-related problems
• Information architecture practitioners, educators, and education programs
• Visions for the future of information architecture

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Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (November 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130967467
• ISBN-13: 978-0130967466
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #636,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Meat and potatoes, April 13, 2003

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This review is from: Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession (Paperback)

There are numerous books that provide countless tips on Information Architecture such the creation of information infrastructures and blueprints, web design, and user experience. However, this book provides us with an overview of how exactly an Information Architect fits into our world and their importance within it.

It supplies information regarding the steps one needs to take to become an Information Architect such as educational opportunities. These educational opportunities are beginning to appear with more frequency (i.e. - University of Baltimore, etc.)and this area of specified education will be pioneering into the future. Personally, this was the most important part of the book for me because I have been doing research to locate an appropriate PhD program (Information Science, Communication, Library Science, etc.) with a concentration in Information Architecture. The book has confirmed to me much of my research and provided additional invaluable information.

The book also describes the future of the discipline and the profession itself. This is a book that is full of facts about schools, to corporations that Information Architects work within, to the expertise that is needed in this flourishing profession.

I have been searching high and low for a book like this. I was looking for the meat and potatoes of the profession and how to get there. That is exactly what I got.