Poster

Wireframes as Art

Chiara Fox

Information architecture has many definitions, and IAs enjoy trying to find a definition that adequately describes what it is that we do. I am partial to the definition put forth by Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, which is that IA is "the art and science of structuring, organizing, and labeling information to help people fine and manage information." Information architecture is more that just a series of methods or deliverables. It is more than simply performing the correct actions to get a good result. There is an element of art, of craft. It is this aspect of what we do that I am exploring with this poster.

This poster will take the most fundamental of all deliverables that information architects create, the wireframe, and explore the wireframe as an art form. I plan on designing and creating ireframes by knitting, quilting, and counted cross-stitching these deliverables. I believe that by looking at these products of our process in materials other than paper or on a screen will bring a unique perspective to how with interact with them. I also believe that it will be a heck of a lot of fun to use these unconventional materials to create wireframes.