Lou’s Venn

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   ? on July 24, 2001 at 12:52 pm

   What about tasks?

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   Lou Rosenfeld on July 24, 2001 at 1:47 pm

   But ultimately, though IA has something to say about tasks and there’s a lot of overlap, I see tasks as fitting more squarely within interaction design.

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   Matt on July 24, 2001 at 3:29 pm

   😉

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   christina on July 24, 2001 at 5:10 pm

   everybody likes a venn diagram

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   Lou Rosenfeld on July 24, 2001 at 7:58 pm

   And four circle Venns are just too danged hard to draw.

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   christina on July 24, 2001 at 10:11 pm

   so Lou, are you saying intereaction design is *not* information architecture???

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   vanderwal on July 25, 2001 at 5:33 am

   Christina, thanks for asking. I am my own Venn diagram in this case as I would flow between IA, ID (strong on the interaction weak on the design), and application developer. Where these intersect is you will find me. I have thought the IA sets the foundation and parameters for ID to fill in and give life and provide the wrappers for the infomation applications, which conform to the findings of the contextual elements and user needs layed out by the IA.

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   Lisa on July 25, 2001 at 2:53 pm

   What about the disappearing reappearing venn diagram? I’ve seen systems that do this 🙂

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   christina on July 25, 2001 at 11:06 pm

   huh?

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    Paul Nattress on July 26, 2001 at 12:56 am

    But I was drinking heavily last night so that may not make as much sense to anyone else as it does to me.

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    Lou Rosenfeld on July 26, 2001 at 3:34 am

    Nope, I don’t think interaction design = information architecture. But explaining why will lead us into a discussion of definitions, and I don’t have enough Gaviscon in the medicine cabinet right now to handle it…

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    Paul Nattress on July 26, 2001 at 4:16 am

    Lou, you suggest on your site that an IA should major in one area and minor in another. Is this saying that a web team would be better off having three IAs to cover all three areas?

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    Lou Rosenfeld on July 26, 2001 at 8:01 am

    Safer would be for each *individual* IA to have multiple competencies (majors and minors); we should all strive to be more well-rounded.

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    Jess on July 26, 2001 at 10:44 am

    Going from there, exploring in the other areas makes you a better-rounded IA.

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    Dennis Schleicher on August 1, 2001 at 5:00 am

    Hmmm, I wonder what most IAs major in?

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    Paul Nattress on August 2, 2001 at 12:59 am

    Let’s spill the beans – I major in content.

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    Kelli Covey on August 5, 2001 at 12:40 pm

    By the way, as far as education, I majored in English and then minored in secretarial skills once I left grad school and couldn’t get a job. That’s how *I* ended up being an IA. 😉

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    victor on August 8, 2001 at 11:30 am

    Perhaps technology is lumped under ‘context’, but then that category is getting rather ambiguous, no?

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    Paul Nattress on August 9, 2001 at 4:51 am

    Isn’t IA about using your knowledge of your disciplines to fit the required information into the technology currently available?

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    christina on August 9, 2001 at 8:26 am

    my venn has always included technology…

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