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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