Michael Cummings is a silicon valley-based software user experience designer dedicated to improving people's capacities, abilities, and experience of life via interactive media.
Michael is currently Senior Interaction Designer at Wells Fargo, in San Francisco CA (U.S.A).
Cummings, Michael (2009). Encyclopedia entry on Information Architecture. Retrieved 3 September 2010 from Interaction-Design.org: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/information_architecture.html
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Publication period:2009-2009
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Whenever we capture the complexity of the real world in formal structures, whether language, social structures, or computer systems, we are creating discrete tokens for continuous and fluid phenomena. In so doing, we are bound to have difficulty. However, it is only in doing these things that we can come to understand, to have valid discourse, and to design.
-- Alan Dix, p. 427 in "Upside-down A's and Algorithms - Computational Formalisms and Theory"
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