The people farthest from understanding the technology are often the ones making the strategic decisions Dennis Kardys Great opening quote in Paul Boag’s book Digital Adaptation. The inference is that the people most removed from digital publishing are senior management and their influencers. This is often true, certainly in the higher-education sector. However I might…
Tag: Silos
Information Architecture often shouldn’t mirror an organisation’s structure because:
Occludes information in silos that are hard to monitor or understand.
Presumes that users know, or care, about the organisational structure.
Silos change with restructuring. Information architecture is rarely that responsive to change.
Invites design by politics and ego.