Comments on: You know you’re an IA when… http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/you-know-youre-an-ia-when Information architecture, interaction design and much more Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: michael http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/you-know-youre-an-ia-when#comment-114 michael Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:50:51 +0000 http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/you-know-youre-an-ia-when#comment-114 it's funny. i find that i organize less for myself than for others. my cds, for instance, are only organized within 5 categories and are arranged alpha numerically within each. my recipe file, on the other hand, is not organized at all. that might be because i really on cookbooks more than recipes, though. but, if i had to prepare a set of recipes for someone else, i have no doubt that i'd be compelled to find a way to make finding recipes easier for them. no doubt that would include lots of classification decisions. so i guess that makes me an ia? i should start a thread on ia/ asking people how they organize various collections of information. the ia discussion group i get together with every month had a similar discussion about how we use to do lists. -m it’s funny. i find that i organize less for myself than for others. my cds, for instance, are only organized within 5 categories and are arranged alpha numerically within each. my recipe file, on the other hand, is not organized at all. that might be because i really on cookbooks more than recipes, though. but, if i had to prepare a set of recipes for someone else, i have no doubt that i’d be compelled to find a way to make finding recipes easier for them. no doubt that would include lots of classification decisions.

so i guess that makes me an ia? i should start a thread on ia/ asking people how they organize various collections of information. the ia discussion group i get together with every month had a similar discussion about how we use to do lists.

-m

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