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How is Pervasive Information Architecture Different and Better?

How is PIA different?

• It bridges the gap between the physical and digital.

• It’s not just about labels, taxonomies or websites. Now, it’s about working with info to shape meaning and purpose over many domains.

• “We IAs have to have a little more Wurman in our pockets and move beyond the Polar Bear book.”

How is PIA different?

“We IAs have to have a little more

Wurman in our pockets and move

beyond the Polar Bear book.”

How is PIA better?

• Information architectures become ecosystems.

• Users become intermediaries.

• Static becomes dynamic.

• Product design becomes experience design across different media.

More About the PIA Heuristics (directions, not directives)

PIA Heuristic 1: Place-making

Capability of Pervasive Information Architecture to reduce disorientation and increase legibility

• Reduce Confusion

• Build a sense of place

• Increase way-finding across environments

PIA Heuristic 2: Consistency

Capability of PIA to provide and sustain internal and external, in-context, on-task coherence

• To suit the purposes, contexts and people it is designed for

• To maintain the same logic along different media, environments and times in which it acts

Flipping image: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/flip-book-makes-a-virtual_n_473869.html

PIA Heuristic 3: Resilience

Capability of PIA models to shape and adapt themselves to specific users, needs, and seeking strategies

PIA Heuristic 4: Reduction

The capability of PIA to minimize the cognitive load and frustration associated with choosing from vast information sources, services, and goods.

• Does NOT reduce options

• Organize and cluster

• Focus and Magnify

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PIA Heuristic 5: Correlation

capability of PIA to suggest relevant connections among pieces of information, services, and goods to help users achieve explicit goal.