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Consumers of
Information became
Producers
“PROSUMERS"
Research paper -
Architecture of the
IBM System/
360” (Amdahl et al
1964),
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1960 1980 1990 2000 2010
1964 1970
TIMELINE WHO
1974-75
WHAT
1998
INFORMATION
DESIGN
ERA
Focuses on
physical layouts,
arrangement of
hardware
FOCUS
Palo Alto Research
Centre (PARC),
Information
specialists were
gathered to
develop
technology which
could support the
“architecture of
information”
Information
Architecture
termed coined
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
On HCI
guidelines &
Information
Structure
Explosion of
data and need
of systems to
manage info.
Ronda Leon’s Hypothesis
3 broad, different and
partially overlapping
approaches of IA.
Differentiating factor being
the way they
work with information:
statically, dynamically, and
as a resource.
SYNTHESIS OF
THE TWO
Design deliverables
blueprints, requirements,
information categories,
guidelines on the underlying
business processes,
IA went mainstream
CLASSIC IA
Library information
Science:
Labelling, Navigation,
searching systems, etc
PERVASIVE IA
IA as a process:
To find needs &
present info. as tasks
As curated by Resimi and Rosati - A Brief History of Information Architecture