{"id":4572,"date":"2022-04-21T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2022-04-21T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:30:16","slug":"information-architecture-vs-interaction-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/information-architecture-vs-interaction-design","title":{"rendered":"Information Architecture vs. Interaction Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While sometimes, people tend to think that there is not a very big difference between Information Architecture and Interaction Design, there is still a clear distinction between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the name suggests, Information Architecture is the overall structure of the contents. It serves as a tool for indicating how they are arranged. It is simply a visual representation of product infrastructure, features, and hierarchy. Information Architecture is not a part of the actual interface, but it plays a critical role in the users&#8217; experience with a digital product nonetheless. That said, the responsibilities of an Information Architect lie in analyzing data, organizing and developing the overall structure of a product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interaction Design, on the other hand, emphasizes more on behavior. It is about&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;users interact with the product and achieve their goals. The responsibility of a UX designer is to improve a user&#8217;s overall experience wiht the product by creating seamless and intuitive interactions, they are more concerned with the functions and manipulations of the product (front-end), rather than the structure behind it (back-end).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes, people tend to think that there is not a very big difference between Information Architecture and Interaction Design, there is still a clear distinction between them. As the name suggests, Information Architecture is the overall structure of the contents. It serves as a tool for indicating how they are arranged. It is simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}