Information Architecture & Communication
There’s no formal, respected education track to becoming an information architect. The most widely-held is Human Computer Interaction, but the role of an information architect tends to be filled by people from a variety of backgrounds who have seamed together along a few common threads. Most prevalent among those threads is a conscious or sub-conscious need to create organization out of chaos. That chaos most often is in the form of the client. Or, more specifically, the personalities composing the client’s team. Executive management committees, secretary turned art director for a day, programmers, brand managers, and the list goes on.…