Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Architecting Our Profession (27 Feb 2005) Where do we find the solution? It’s likely in needs of smaller businesses and organizations. In order to make the needed room for these areas to influence the field of information architecture; we need for them to rely on or to develop their own specialists and contractors, individuals who are professionals with the insight and experience to understand the entire project, and to create new models of IA for each project. What we are missing however, is the support system to protect, establish and promote those who chose to contract out specialist needs. Article URL: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/architecting_our_profession.php Read 200 more articles from Boxes and Arrows sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Is communications up to running intranet?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy