The founder of modern models of information architecture was graphic designer and architect Richard Saul Wurman.
Wurman believed that information should be structured in the same way as a building: building on a solid foundation. As in architecture, IA must be based on a precise, intentional structure and a solid foundation of ideas.
In summary, Information architecture is the discipline responsible for organizing, labeling, and designing the entire structural design. In the polar bear book, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville describe the following basic definitions of information architecture:
- The combination of organization, labeling, and navigation schemes within an information system
- The structural design of an information ...
