Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design

"Both information architects and Web designers can be too presumptuous about what the other does. They're continually putting each other into little boxes, trying to define each other's role.

On one hand, many Web designers don't understand information architecture's role within Web design. Designers think that information architects are the people who keep trying to organize everything. On the other hand, many information architects underestimate the Web designer's role within a project. Information architects think they should write the site specification and that designers should code it."

Web designers have been led to believe that they’re restricted to doing what they’ve always done and should leave the information architecture to the information architects. This does not have to happen.


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