Information Architecture vs. User Experience: What Is the Difference?

By d/D

Information Architect Peter Boersma argues that “big” information architecture, the large-scale integration of specialized IA tasks such as navigational design and metadata analysis with related specialties such as visual design and copywriting, should inherit the term “User Experience.”

With the aid of several condensed cocktail-napkin sketches, Boersma gets beyond the terminology debate and offers a useful way of understanding the scope of big information-based projects.

http://www.peterboersma.com/blog/2004/11/t-model-big-ia-is-now-ux.html

Boersma introduces his essay with a reference to Peter Morville’s “Big Architect Little Architect” essay, found here:

http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange004.html