Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, Second Edition

Foreword

It’s hard to recall, now, the world that greeted the first edition of this book upon its publication seven years ago. The world has changed, of course, but perhaps more significantly, information architecture itself, and its place within that world, has changed even more.

At that time, some pronounced information architecture a fad, an artifact of the inflated expectations (not to mention job titles and salaries) of the late-’90s dot-com boom. And just as that boom had recently gone bust, some expected the field of information architecture to go bust right along with it.

But then something happened that took some people by surprise: As the bubble burst and the prospects of Web startups deflated, information architecture actually became ...