The Information Architecture Institute, http://iainstitute.org, gives this definition for Information Architecture (IA) as:
The structural design of shared information environments.
The art of science of organizing and labeling Websites, Intranets, online communities and software—to support usability, user-centered design and findability.
An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and Information Architecture to the digital landscape.
The term Information Architecture describes a specialized skill set, which relates to the interpretation of information and expression or distinctions between signs and systems of signs.
It has some degree of origin in the library sciences and information design. Many Universities teach Information Architecture in the Library Science and Graphic Design Departments.
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