Topics to expand on: - Places made of language / information - Information architecture creates practical, usable, shared information environments in the same way building architects create usable places in the built world. - Embodied cognition - Limitations of the body & limitations of the mind - Context matters - The information ecology includes users, context, content - Pace layers (Stewart Brand) - Overviews, zoom, details on demand (reference?) - information architecture creates systems that allow users to refine models with use - users form mental models by synthesizing information in the world with information in the head - Desire lines - People won't "just search" - Precision & recall - Data-centricity - data is the center of the universe ([The Data-Centric Manifesto](http://datacentricmanifesto.org)) --- **Relates to**: [[information architecture|IA]]