andrea resmini

Information architecture is not just for the Web: information architecture has a larger impact on many offline activities and affects our daily experience in many different ways.
Its contribution becomes crucial where complexity, unfamiliarity and information overload stand in the way of the user.

We would like to outline a unified model of information architecture able to traverse the diverse contexts we encounter daily, from digital to physical spaces, providing a conceptual framework for the design of cognitive and informational continuity between environments.

The 8th IA Summit closed down yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year FaceTag was part of the Research Track and our man on a tagging mission, Emanuele Quintarelli, was appointed Chief Evangelist Maximum and sent there to tell the more-than-800-IAs crowd what's all this top-down bottom-up affair.

In Italy, like in most other countries I believe, we have what is called the bollo auto, in the English speaking world car tax, or road tax, or even vehicle license fee. That is something you pay on a half-yearly or yearly base because you own or drive around a car. In darker ages you had to suffer time-consuming queues in some murky and crowded place where after showing handful of dubious-looking papers to a bored clerk you ended up paying the wrong amount, but this is the Internet Age: we have the Web, we have automated procedures, we do it online, we do it better.
So climb in, ladies and gentlemen, let's go pay some bollo auto.

Should writers and contributors using CMS have a say in how a web site renders text and paragraphs?

Opinions differ. I consider this a much tougher question than it seems at first, even in these times of UX and Rich Internet Applications.