Louis Rosenfeld is one of the better thinkers currently involved in information architecture. Frustrated with the baby steps—self-definition and self-justification—required to formulate a discipline, Rosenfeld proposes in this article that we lay off the belly-button gazing and start thinking forward. He does a great job of identifying a core of 6 areas of focus that information architects should pursue:
- Distinguishing users’ information needs
- Determining content granularity
- Developing hybrid architectures
- Presenting search results better
- Understanding and using metadata
- Rolling out enterprise-wide architectures
Rosenfeld presents the areas of focus not as a rigid methodology but rather as a starting point for discussion.
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