Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The Web, Interaction Architecture, and Interaction Design (29 Sep 2005) Because the culture of Web design remains strongly rooted in graphic design, many conceive of IA as "all Web design that isn't graphic design." But that misses another important distinction. Just as the growth of Web sites created problems in organizing content, giving rise to the discipline of IA, so too the appearance of Web sites generated by complicated software generating unique pages that people use as tools, calling for a discipline I prefer to call "interaction design." (IxD) Let's unpack that distinction. Article URL: http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters/2005_issue01/The_Web_IA_and_ID.asp Read 81 more articles from Cooper sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: there really is no such thing as a free iPod          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy