Paul Adams shows how our interactions with friends (and “friends”) online differ from interactions with friends and acquaintances offline, and points out what kind of challenges these differences pose when designing for social networks.
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I don’t think in terms of wireframes… I don’t think in terms of Information Architecture, I think in terms of understanding. I’m interested in understanding things that interest me and I am interested in the systemic rigger of being able to explain. I’m interested in communicating with another human being …and I am doing it with rigor and responsibility, and that is what information architecture is. It’s not the modality, not the particular technology… it’s just making yourself understandable.
— Richard Saul Wurman, IA Summit 2010
I’ve never been able to phrase it as well as Richard Saul Wurman, but it is exactly what I feel being an IA (or UX, if you want) is about. And it’s also exactly why I like working in this field.
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