A shared information environment is the given space, time, and respective mechanisms where participants willfully collaborate and coexist to satisfy their complementary objectives. Architecting their creation as a shared environment requires exploiting mechanisms that support beneficial interactions and human behaviors bounded by systemic reciprocity.

If you are a user experience designer, product designer, or information architecture practitioner, you are likely familiar with applying information architecture (IA) as the “structural design of shared information environments” [1] to make information in digital user interfaces findable and understandable. To achieve structural integrity, it’s important to establish a solid concept baseline for business, design, content, and data modeling activities… Read More