I also make sure things don't get out of control, and that we don't overload the user with information. Egert says the growth of the information architect profession signals a new way of looking at software. They worked, and you could move through them, but they looked terrible. That would be like someone painting the side of a van to pretty it up. It's an inferior way of working.
Software is an engineering thing.
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