Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Pace, Timing and Rhythm in Information Architecture (03 Feb 2005) Is there a temporal aspect to interaction that we should acknowledge? Surely there is a pace that leads to the best fit for each of us between tool and task, between goal and accomplishment, between resource and purpose. Sometimes making it faster just works against making it better, and I am not sure where this insight finds resonance in information architecture or systems design. The rhythm of interaction is partly set by the underlying design choices and that makes it matter of IA for me. Pace, timing and rhythm; there’s a whole world of information architecture yet to be done. Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-04/dillon.html Read 119 more articles from American Society for Information Science sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Starter for art lovers     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy