Using information architecture
Expert use of information architecture enables both insight and expert redesign.
Information isn’t just the nodes we tend to pay attention to – the positive forms in the abstractions of data.
Between the positive forms is connections. Those connections, combined, form connectome. That connectome forms patterns that can be used to orient the problem within context – to look beyond the immediate problem-to-solve to the domain and get a sense of how lossy the connectome might be.
That gives us new options to find and design a different way through the structure, and even pick out different structures to solve our problem. With this one, I layered different structures.
Also, our information is thoroughly human. By always keeping human cognition in mind, we can gain insight into the current information forms, potential embedded pitfalls, and potential solutions.
Information architecture, done well and deeply understood, is deeply humanist and expansive. It’s that way because that’s how we get to functional, flowing information structures with fewer bet misalignments.
When we're building information for humans to use to positive effect, we have to factor in the humans.
