Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:
Information architecture is usually taught as menus, hierarchies, and taxonomy, but that’s only the surface layer.
Information architecture is not navigation. It is the structuring of understanding.
The core question is simple. It's asking what is the minimum amount of information needed to form understanding on a screen
It’s deciding:
what exists (ontology)
what matters right now (relevance)
what can be understood together (chunking)