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Richard Hill | 2 Sep 2003 19:44

[Sigia-l] Testing this list


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>
>haven't gotten one since the 27th

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Richard Hill | 2 Sep 2003 20:32

[Sigia-l] Testing Again

Please ignore.

Somehow it is hard to believe that this list has had no legitimate posts 
from Friday at 1 until now (other than my two tests).

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Richard Hill | 2 Sep 2003 21:50

[Sigia-l] ASIST&T 03 Annual Meeting Deadline

A quick reminder.  The ASIST Annual is earlier this year than in recent years.

The cut off for early registration is September 5.

The full details of the meeting, October 19-23, Long Beach, CA are at 
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM03/index.html

Hotel reservations should be made by calling (562) 436-3000 OR 1-800-228-3000.
(The 800 number is different from what is in the mailed program.  The number above is correct.)

New and different this year: Tuesday Awards Luncheon replaces Wednesday evening Banquet – but the
President’s Reception, Wednesday evening, is unchanged, secret awards and a rousing send-off.

Dick Hill

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Listera | 3 Sep 2003 03:24
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Re: [Sigia-l] Testing Again

"Richard Hill" wrote:

> Somehow it is hard to believe that this list has had no legitimate posts
> from Friday at 1 until now (other than my two tests).

Well, coming back from Labor Day, I found a couple of beautifully
handwritten letters on rice paper in my mailbox from some members of this
list. Does that count? :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 

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Jason | 3 Sep 2003 04:56
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[Sigia-l] Bridging the gap

Hello everyone,

I have been told that one of my roles as an information architect includes
bridging the gap (or chasm) between the design and technical teams. I
recognize that everyone's gap is different, but I would love to get some
your interpretations of that role. More specifically:

1. Have you any project or process specific evidence that the IA is indeed
the missing link?

2. What types of deliverables have the potential for communicating to both
audiences?

Thanks :)

Jason Pryslak

http://www.artofthechicken.com/jp

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Listera | 3 Sep 2003 05:22
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Re: [Sigia-l] Bridging the gap

"Jason" wrote:

> 1. Have you any project or process specific evidence that the IA is indeed
> the missing link?

As long as designers don't program and programmers don't design, there are
and will always be a link, however strongly-typed it may or may not be. So
the link is not missing; it's, at best, mismanaged. :-)

Can IA be the 'bridge'? Yes. So can a business analyst, project manager, and
a whole cornucopia of other titles.

> 2. What types of deliverables have the potential for communicating to both
> audiences?

The one with the least ambiguity: the prototype.

Caution: an IA who's not bi-lingual in design and development often makes a
poor bridge.

Observation: the gap between design and development is getting increasingly
narrower.

Prediction: other titles will vie to bridge this ever-closing gap.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 

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Chris Chandler | 3 Sep 2003 12:16
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Jason <jason31 <at> verizon.net> wrote:

>1. Have you any project or process specific
> evidence that the IA is indeed
> the missing link?

I don't know about IA  being "the" missing link -- but in my experience, the secret to an effective IA is to
create and communicate a design that works as an input to both visual design and technology teams.

But, that isn't the only gap that needs to be bridged -- IA often bridges gaps between business and
production teams, or marketing and the web site teams, and lets not forget the most important bridge --
between our organizations and their users/customers.

> 2. What types of deliverables have
> the potential for communicating to both 
> audiences?

Wireframes are the obvious answer, but I wouldn't place a lot of emphasis on a single set of documents. The
two groups (generalizing here) have very different needs, interests, and temperments. Where I am, the
wireframes are primarily for visual design, while the "interaction rules" (a "lite" func spec, really)
are for the tech team.

-cc

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David Bishop | 3 Sep 2003 16:03
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RE: [Sigia-l] Bridging the gap

> I have been told that one of my roles as an information 
> architect includes bridging the gap (or chasm) between the 
> design and technical teams. 
> 
> 1. Have you any project or process specific evidence that the 
> IA is indeed the missing link?

At the risk of being trite, just about every project we've worked on as
consultants. At MAYA, we view the Information Architecture as the bridge
between the System Architecture (the mechanism that makes the thing work)
and the User Interface (the part that transduces information to and from the
user). 

I'm not super-happy with the language, but read what we say here on our
website:
http://www.maya.com/web/how/how_architecture.mtml

...I think the important notion to understand is our point about the IA
being the only part of a system that you "really own." A better way to say
this is that it is one of the longest-lasting and slowest-changing things,
and that the UI and the system internals can change around it. Consider a
bank -- the IA can describe how money flows and the services the bank
provides and what benefits a customer gets. This is the crux of what it is
to be a bank: it provides security, it lends money, it compensates you in
the form of interest, and so on. One can imagine an entity-relationship
diagram that explains all this: customers store money; banks provide
security to customers; customers borrow money; borrowers pay interest;
interest is passed on to customers who are storing their money, and so on.
The user interface can change -- tellers versus drive-throughs; ATMs,
on-line banking; checks versus money orders, etc. The system architecture
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Sean Lawrence | 3 Sep 2003 16:51

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> Prediction: other titles will vie to bridge this ever-closing gap.

Ziya,

I'm sure you spoken to this question before but I'd like to ask it in this
context.  Job titles certainly might be competing for this bridge, but
shouldn't professionals in this space be concerned more about skills that
are going to fill this role.  Someone with the title Business Analyst could
be performing more typical functions of an IA (whatever they might be,
different thread altogether :) and be more concerned with synthesis that say
someone with the title Content Analyst, or Architect, who could be more
concerned with strategic, tone-centered issues rather than acting as a
integrating agent between dev and design.

My prediction would look more like this:

Prediction: other title will vie to absorb IA roles and skills.

And the dizzying IA carousel goes round and round

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Sean Lawrence | 3 Sep 2003 16:55

Re: [Sigia-l] Bridging the gap

Outlook Express needs a punctuation checker ;)

>  but shouldn't professionals in this space be concerned more about skills
that
> are going to fill this role?

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