Information Architecture and UX Design The Integration of Information Spaces, 3rd (Wei Ding, Xia Lin, Michael Zarro) (Z-Library)

The term Information Architecture (IA) was coined by a brick-and-mortar architect Richard Wurman in the early 1970s as a profession of “gathering, organizing, and presenting information.” The World Wide Web accelerated the information explosion and created the real needs for the profession to help more people find and manage useful information online. Similarly, User Experience (UX), a term first used by Don Norman at Apple Computer in the 1990s, grew exponentially along with the web. Our revised third edition positions IA and UX design are two sides of the same humancentered design (HCD) coin. IA is associated with taxonomy, metadata, thesaurus, and other “information findability” related tasks that often happen behind the scenes, along with labeling and defining channels for information access. UX design is responsible for the vision and design solutions that people interact with and experience. The authors believe that the continuous evolution of the information spaces supported by the web, cloud, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies makes it possible to deliver ever more sophisticated interactions and user activities. The increasing importance of large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) have had profound impacts on work, play, and society at large. UX and AI converge in human-centered AI (HCAI), with the responsibility to make AI work for people. This requires a team effort including data scientists, machine learning engineers, developers, product owners, graphic designers, user researchers, and many more. Convergence calls for higher level of seamless collaboration among all the disciplines, but it does not eliminate the need for dedicated IA and UX work. Instead, this work spreads from traditional web design to digital devices, apps, medical devices, automobiles, and many other places. IAs and UX designers are part of the team determining the business and UX strategy, based on user needs and business goals, and making sure the strategy g