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A 16-year-old says his walk down the aisle was his pathway to freedom. The wedding legally emancipated him from a court order to live with his father, the man he says molested him.
Sixteen-year-old Damon Moelter has lived on the run for nearly a third of his life. Living in a kind of underground...In hiding, no friends, no family. Last month, he finally stopped running. Why? He got married. Confused?
Damon is the first to admit the events in his young life have been "mind boggling." But his story illustrates the Byzantine world of kids caught in California's Family Court system.
Ten years ago, Damon alleged his father, Eric, molested him, a charge Eric adamantly denies. Though Eric admits he failed a police lie detector test and was placed – temporarily – on a child abuse watch list, he won full custody of Damon in Family Court.
Now, the mother, Cindy Dumas, wasn't drug addict or a criminal. She was just a regular mom. By most accounts, a really good mom. But she believed her son. And she fought to protect him. The Family Court basically accused her of "alienating" Damon from his dad, coaching him to say terrible things.
Experts refuted it – and it got complex – but basically, she says, she lost custody because she believed her son. When the Family Court judge gave custody to the dad, she refused to hand him over – fearing he could be abused. Instead she went into hiding. She says the Family Court completely abused her and stripped her of her rights – and has gone on to become a crusading figure fighting Family Court abuse. But back then, she was a mom protecting her son.
Three years later, she came out of hiding after striking a deal to get a fair hearing in court. Lawyers can debate how fair it was, but Damon's mom says she was tricked. The courts again ordered Damon to live with his dad. Damon ran away again – this time all alone.
He's been moving from house to house, aided by "caretakers." He describes it as kind of an informal underground. That's where we met him. He was desperate to go home, to his mom. He missed his brothers. He missed his friends. He missed school.
For nearly two years was holed up alone. He was even cut off, mostly, from the Internet. He was afraid if he used it too much, his day – or the police – could track him down. You see, there was a warrant out for his arrest – actually a warrant to stop detain a runaway – but Damon says it amounted to the same thing.
So Damon says he spent most of his time trying to come out of hiding – trying to find someone to help him. He launched an Internet campaign, posting YouTube videos explaining his situation, trying to get TV's Dr. Phil, or someone to help him.
Attorney's appealed to the court, asking them to give custody to Cindy, his mom. Then there was an appeal to other jurisdictions for a restraining order, so Damon could represent himself in court and fight for his freedom – without the fear his dad would get at him. Then he called to police urging them to launch a real investigation into his molestation charge. Everyone required him to come out of hiding before they would do anything.
When his attorney's last-ditch effort in court was denied, Damon turned to more radical plans. Then he stumbled onto a novel idea: In California a teenager who gets married is automatically emancipated. Essentially, they become legal adults, not subject to their parent's custody.
Then it was only a matter of finding a bride. Now Damon won't say much about that. But once the plan was afoot, he says it was a fairly straight path to the wedding aisle.
And so there they were at a the wedding chapel. Damon, beaming. His mother, Cindy, in tears. Tears of joy. She wasn't losing her son to the bride – she was getting him back. "Your free," she shouted. "I'm free."
"Now we can get back to our lives."
And so their life began again. Damon could hardly pause to say goodbye. He was headed straight to see his brothers – a forced separation he couldn't wait to bridge. And then he could go home.
At long, long last.
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This guy.............this guy. I'm sure we all remember our man Adam Lefkoe from last week's 'Wrestlecast' when he worked in 31 old school wrestling references in a single sportscast. Well he is back babbbbby! And he's taking his sportscast to the next level with 41 Seinfeld references in 'Seinfeldcast.' When we blogged about Wrestlecast I openly wondered where he would go from there, could he follow it up blah blah blah. Well to say my concerns were unfounded would be an understatement. Not only did he follow it up but I would say he flat out topped it. Not to mention I feel like this dude is a bizarro world Jon Henseler (wouldn't it be bad bye?). It's pretty clear we share the same passions in life like 80's wrestling and 20 year old sitcoms. Except instead of being a degenerate blogger who may or may not have just picked a sunflower seed out of his beard, Adam Lefkoe is sporting a boss suit, a clean shave and a clear path to ESPN. Other than that though we're like the same person. Hey Adam, if you were a chick, who's the one guy you would sleep with? JOHN STAMOS!
In all honesty if this guy follows this up with Anchormancast or Magnum PI cast I'm going to be stalking him like Crazy Joe Davola.
PS: Love that he just cut Kent Spencer's segment out this time instead of wasting two minutes with no wrestling/Seinfeld references. You had your chance Kent! Get ready to be singing Afternoon Delight at 3pm in a Louisville bar when you're unemployed in 2 years while watching Adam Lefkoe host Sportscenter.
Double PS: Hey Chelsea can you get off Adam's jock for a second? No one likes desperation. Actually you may as well get on the train now before Lefkoe is knocking boots with Sage Steele.
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A lamp had been knocked over, and a throw rug was wadded up against a wall. In the front room the TV was blaring loud to a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass was under the table, and a small pile of sand was piled up by the back door.
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It may be the off season, but the Atlanta Falcons are working hard on Friday. They are not working on the field, but in a community that's under construction.From spreading mulch, to building projects, to painting walls, the catch phrase that seems to follow the Falcons everywhere is appropriate as they rise up to help build an old school and turn it into an academy."Everybody is dressed the same. Nobody has a title, nobody has a job. Their role today is to give back and make a difference," said team owner Arthur Blank.It's something Blank encourages his employees to do every year. This year, they're teaming with Habitat for Humanity to do work on several Atlanta homes, and they are sprucing up an empty building that used to be an Atlanta public school. With the team's help, it will be the home for a new Kipp Ways Academy Charter School."Our kids are going to be so excited to see a space that's welcoming to them, that represents their school colors and it allows them to feel like they're at home," said David Jernigan of Kipp Academy.It's all thanks to the 180 volunteers giving up their time for a good cause."We'll, I've done some painting growing up. So I do enjoy it. It's kind of tedious, but it's fun," said Falcons head Mike Smith.Smith says his father was a teacher and in the summer, he would take painting jobs and let his son help out."Just to see what it looked like when we started the day and the sense of accomplishment at the end of day, and we're doing something well," said Smith."That's what makes this a beautiful day. It's all about a common shared value, of trying to make a difference in people's lives," Blank said.
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HD Radio comes to Zune — soon
Microsoft has announced that the next version of the Zune media player — the Zune HD — will include an HD Radio receiver. In one way I want to say, "It's about time."
On the other hand I ask, "Why bother?"
For some time I have said that the real mark of HD Radio success is to have the technology in every radio receiver. If it's an option it will always be just that. If it's in every receiver, there's no doubt. Adding the technology to devices such as the Zune is a good step in this direction.
I don't know how many people use the radio receiver on the Zune. I don't own one, nor do any of my friends. (If you have a Zune, tell us what you use it for.) Regardless, once it has an HD Radio receiver, that's one more not-an-option choice.
But why the "why bother?" comment? While I admit to not knowing the stats on radio usage for Zune owners, I would think people are buying a Zune because it's a media player, not a portable radio. Sure, radio is one form of media, and if it's already in there, perhaps it will get used. Having the radio receiver is one advantage the Zune has over the Ipod. I'll have to reserve judgment until some stats are available.
The Zune HD is slated for release in the fall 2009. I look forward to seeing one in action. I also wonder what the battery life will be like.
In the end, call the Zune HD a win for HD Radio.
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Established in 1996, the Museum Teacher Fellowship Program has developed a national corps of skilled educators to help lead the Museum's efforts to ensure quality Holocaust education in secondary schools. To date, 314 teachers have become a part of the corps, working to:
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Monsignor James Lavin, a much-beloved facet of the University of St. Thomas, passed away Monday at the Little Sisters of the Poor residence near downtown St. Paul. He was 93.
Lavin devoted his life to serving the university community, which is where he lived for more than 75 years. Countless students say they came to think of him as a guardian angel on campus.
"I don't know how he found me, but he did -- another broke kid who could barely afford to be in college," recalled Fred Soucie.
In 1968, Soucie was just another scared freshman Lavin took under his wing. He remembers fondly how the priest would pay him generously for simple errands and odd jobs.
"I believe in my heart that if ever a saint walked the face of the Earth, it's Father James Lavin," he told FOX 9 News.
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You can read more on the life of Monsignor James Lavin online here.
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The De-Evolution of UX Design
I was first introduced to the field of UX in the summer of 2005. After leaving my job as a Java Programmer in Hartford, I moved to San Antonio, where I randomly fell into a UX job—talk about lucky. It's an understatement to say that I had no idea what I was doing, and I scraped along for a while trying to figure it all out.
Back in those days, my role was not described as "UX designer" or "interaction designer;" in fact, the term "UX" didn't even exist in my world! Instead, those of us who weren't visual designers were called "information architects," and that was exactly what we did. It was our job to architect, organize, and make sense of the information within a website or application. After we mapped that out (either in an IA document or some sort of concept mapping), we worked with a visual designer to put our mapping into an interface.
The first thing I did on the job, which may be surprising to many of us now, had nothing to do with learning how to wireframe. In fact, I didn't create my first wireframe until almost three years later. Instead, the first thing I was instructed to do was visit Jesse James Garrett's site. I was tasked with understanding what the "visual vocabulary for describing information and interaction design" was from a conceptual standpoint, and to then map out information flows for my projects.
There are several reasons why this was my first step. Learning and applying the visual vocabulary meant that my IA outputs forced the project team to focus on and discuss how information should be interrelated and prioritized within a website or application before we started to design the interface solution. If we didn't first determine and get business stakeholders' input into how information and content should be interrelated and prioritized, our design team would be guessing at the design of the interface. Learning and applying the visual vocabulary allowed our IA team to define the information structure and then force a stakeholder discussion around it to get useful direction and avert confusion and frustration during future design phases.
The second reason that learning and applying the visual vocabulary was my first step was that my design team didn't want to show an interface to our non-design partners and stakeholders as our first deliverable (which is what showing a wireframe would have been). We knew that what we really needed from them wasn't feedback on the visual solution, but rather feedback on the content and context that related to the system. That information would help us to better define the interface in the coming phases, as well as decrease opinion-based discussions and feedback.
It's been seven years since I took that first step into IA, and, sadly, it seems that the practice of understanding and prioritizing information before designing the interface has been abandoned. And because of that, we are facing a huge problem in the world of UX, which is, simply put, that we are devolving.
The definition of de-evolution is "to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution." It seems to me that by removing the information architecture step—where one takes the time to understand and prioritize information—from our day-to-day process, we're on our way down the path of de-evolution. I'm not saying that there needs to be a structured phase that everyone needs to follow, but I am saying that IA (which includes first understanding and mapping out how information should be structured) needs to be done and signed off on by stakeholders before a project can move into interface design (including wireframes).
There are several problems that arise from skipping the IA phase. First, the team (UXers, visual designers, project team members, other stakeholders, etc.) won't be in agreement on what type of information is needed and what information is most important to the design, which will cause disagreement in later phases. Second, by showing wireframes without agreeing on the IA, we are focusing stakeholders and other partners on the interface and not on the real thing we are designing for: content and context. Third, we are, in essence, beginning to lie to ourselves, supposing our designs aren't just about form, but about function as well. If they were about function, we would have spent time on the IA phase before we went right into talking about form in the wireframe phase.
To make matters worse, we as an industry have been trying to validate the discomfort that many of us feel subconsciously with skipping the IA step, by turning to sketching as our ultimate solution. Sketching is an important and helpful technique, but we need to be aware of its limitations, and when sketching is and isn't appropriate in the product design process. Many UXers seem to think that since sketching doesn't involve putting wireframes into an electronic format, it doesn't really count as skipping straight to wireframing. But sketching the interface without first sketching the structure of the information means you are skipping the one step that will make your designs truly successful. That step is where you think about the content, context, and users, and force your stakeholders to do the same, without thinking about the interface—in other words, that step is the IA step.
So how do we stop this process of devolution and backwards movement? We bring back IA! I'm not saying that we should all learn Jesse James Garrett's visual vocabulary (though it wouldn't hurt) or that we need to institute a structured process that we follow the exact same way every time. But we need to slow down, put down our sketching pens, close OmniGraffle, and just think. Think about and draw out the application content, context, and users, and use this to gain buy-in. And do so without a wireframe or a sketch of a wireframe. Pick up the Polar Bear book, ignore the wireframe chapter, and learn IA. Then go out and put IA into effective practice in your organizations and teams.
By bringing the IA phase back and by concentrating first on the information, several things will happen. First, your sketching and interface design will become much, much better because you have prioritization and buy-in of the content, context, and users you are designing for. This allows your wireframe/prototyping phase to truly be about the interface, not what content should go in the interface and why. Second, you are showing stakeholders that UX design isn't just about form, but really is also about function. This moves the focus away from the interface and towards a real solution of which the interface is only a part, and brings us back to the roots of IA. Third, we can finally stop pretending that the best UX solutions are the coolest and most aesthetically appealing. The best solutions are those that take content, context, and users into consideration while creating an aesthetically appropriate interface. Most importantly, we stop UX's slide down the evolution scale back towards the time of design for the interface and not the experience, and instead continue our climb towards being true UX experts.
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Yes...I've been an internal UX-er for enterprise software companies for over ten years, and the only constant seems to be a reduction in time spent figuring out the Whys, Whats, and Whos. As designers, it's fun and easy to dive right into How and to show off our design chops with prototypes and other artifacts, but I echo Holger's comments - I am a questioner, and if I don't have a 'good enough' understanding of the problem space, and the needs of the audience, stakeholders, and team, I struggle. To my way of thinking, IA is all the stuff that reflects the up-front decisions teams must make to ensure a successful project. Perhaps most shockingly, many of my UX colleagues don't even know what IA is...or they consider it the purview of a different role.
This confirms what I've seen in many places, UX is becoming prey to a land grab of 'genius' visual designers. 'i know what i want to do' is replacing or over shadowing, 'I know what problems I'm solving' or 'goal i am designing for' . Information architecture, information design, content and context of use still have a place at the table. Digital design hubris will diminish UX as a field and products suffer as a result.
I agree with Christopher Detzi - it really depends on the nature of the product. The software (web app) that I am currently designing requires IA simply because of the nature of its content - big data presented in pivot screen format with interchangeable attributes and metrics with multiple dimensional views. If one doesn't understand the nature of the atomic data and can architect visualizations for it, the project would be a flop. Even for my team of 30+ coders, without very specific architectural diagrams of data joins to visual output, there are days we get lost. On the flip side is a senior management bent on gamifying the app, so IA becomes even more important simply to retain integrity. UX will move forward BECAUSE we get better and better at IA, not because we abandon it (for the same reason the rudimentary HTML I first scripted back in 1994 looks so elementary by today's standards but the principles of it still apply).
Thanks for the comment.... and I read you post as well... great article! I think the main point that brings our two thoughts together is the thinking and planning and how that is so very important. I think you are right in that exploring the other C... colleagues... could be very interesting!
Hi Lis, great article and what I love most is the discussion. Because I believe it's always worth it to stop and to rethink what we are doing and why.
I've been working on UI since 1985 when there was only the Mac Plus around. That was when I found my interest in UID and information structures began to grow. And I still change my way of working form client to client and from project and project. New procedures, field of activity and deliverables are not an end unto themselves.
The activities and deliverables are a means of communication and to push projects forward - together with several stakeholders, departments and people.
it is of utmost importance to examine and pay attention very acutely to be able to identify the real bones of contention, communication and understanding, in turn to be able to intervene in a helpful and constructive manner to deal with and, if possible, to solve the conflict of smooth and hassle free communication.
We are always asking and being asked: what are the deliverables. Throughout my career as an IA, UX-planner and designer, as well as during my study of architecture and town planning, I have constantly asked myself following the questions ...
... What kind of project is it? What are the key points?
... What should our steps and milestones be in the project?
... What should our/my deliverables be?
... How can we/I explain the main idea?
I have realized that if I do not answer these questions previous to creating a deliverable, I waste more time and deadlines slip.
A few months ago I wrote an article 'Walk a while in someone else's shoes: Exploring the Role of C...s' ( http://ux4dotcom.blogspot.de/2010/08/walk-while-in-someone-elses-shoes.html ) - this article is about the understanding of 'Cs' (the C stands for: the Consumer, Customers, Casual - and Commercial User) and how we bring them together. But maybe I should expand the meaning C = Colleagues !?
If we set aside the labels, any piece of the puzzle that is left out hinders the user experience. I'm not referring to deliverables, but rather, prioritizing content and understanding the relationships between content/tasks. Nothing brings this into focus like designing for small screens.
For example, do I really want to have a direct link to managing my list of emails while I'm writing an email on my phone? Or are the two chiefly related tasks reading and writing/responding to emails? If so, a direct link to list management just gets in the way or leads the user down an unexpected path. Without coming to terms with issues of priorities and context, controls and actions can end up with relationships and priorities that feel unnatural to users.
Some folks can manage this sort of thing in their head and start sketching. But Liz brings up a salient point - this hasn't been run by the client, nor has it been made evident to the team. Plus, mapping out tasks and subtasks can also help with usability testing and help us understand where our origina tasks paths did not match up with user expectations.
After living through many trends, it seems the latest technique (or lack thereof) is always seized on as a means to save time and money, or subvert the need to learn a skill. While our disciplines are still evolving and growing, we have to remember there's no silver bullet. Skipping key steps will cause our products to stumble.
Thanks for all of the awesome discussion so far! I am glad (and also sad) to see that others have been seeing this same trend. The intention of the piece is to point out the need to slow down and think about the structure of the virtual places we are building through our websites, apps, and more before we start to think about the interface of those virtual places. I do agree that a formal IA step is not always necessary, especially in smaller projects, however I firmly believe that some sort of IA thinking and skillset (however formal or informal) should go into constructing any virtual place. The extent of that thinking is dependent on the situation, as always.
I do believe that without this thinking UX is in decline. I can see that not only in the client expectations that I run into, but also in the work that we, as an industry celebrate (much is aesthetically pleasing, but hasn't been constructed into a useful form). I'm interested to see how all of it plays out!
Hi Lis-
Extraordinary article...well done!
I try very hard to teach information architecture and user/searcher experience to search engine optimizers because IA has such an incredible impact on findability...not only on web search engines but also on site search engines.
I think it's difficult for many people to "get" IA because it's not visual. Many of my clients and colleagues are very visual, and they rush into poor designs and even poor wireframes because they require that visceral impact to understand the deeper, perhaps more "frontal lobe" thought process for an effective information architecture.
Add to it the unfortunate challenge of, "Make my #1 on Google all of the time, and do it yesterday" mentality. That's the challenge that search professionals face.
Again, kudos on an extraordinary article.
One thing I've found that can gum up the full, complete flow for UX work is actually the audience of stakeholders.
Often the best thing for your audience is "the works" in a certain order: personas, IA sticky-note games, flows diagrams, wireframes, interactive wireframes, mockups, specs, etc.
But a lot of the time your audience is not going to "get" some of those steps, and some will only take part if you do them out of proper order. It has to do with what they're used to in order to full grasp what you're delivering to them.
I've had stakeholders that have gone through several rounds of esoteric steps (taxonomy, wireframes) without any feedback and then suddenly wake up when they see the first mockup - unleashing a torrent of feedback about not only the new visuals but about the core aspects reviewed in the earlier steps. What that means to me is that some of these deliverables seem "real" enough to our audience that they fully understand them, while the other materials just whooosh past them. If they don't have the experience (or patience) to simulate what these early IA steps mean for the final results then I've found people either mentally check out or they nit-pick over inconsequential details.
As a result, I've started switching order and skipping steps to get stakeholders engaged early, so that when I show them an esoteric step, they know that it's important.. that it's going to be used in the throw-away example I showed them previously. It's more wasteful but I think it's often necessary to avoid time bombs in the design process.
Like many here, I have been part of what we call UX for a long time now. I came into the work through HCI.
Here is my real issue with your point of view. You suppose that the "Architecture" (organization of information) supersedes the experience in terms of value. I could not disagree more. The structure and navigation of information is important, but that might lead you to a "Jacob Nielson"-like philosophy, stripped down experiences built and utility. This is not *true* for humans, design, interaction and appeal drive adoption, usage and affordance at least as much as proper IA/structure.
All experience professionals would be better off to look at work on a per-project basis, and consider the needs from there. In some cases interactions and design may lead, in others IA. Thinking of experience as purely a reflection is an old, and incorrect view of usability.
Feel free to poke at my blog posts anytime! http://thearchetypist.com
Your experience is largely echoed of Nancy Roberts' (see "No more information architecture?" http://www.ixda.org/node/32339). I recall a few years ago there was a small movement against user research and for a "Great Designer" mentality, which assumed we can create superior products from the preternatural intuition that of course all us Designers have. This coincided with a new emphasis on "emotional design," where the goal wasn't so much to inform the user but to instill a certain feeling or motivation. Perhaps some web design houses have bought too much into this, and thus emphasize aesthetics over the user's information needs. We'll see if the forces of capitalistic natural selection allow these houses to survive. Meanwhile, perhaps you and Ms. Roberts should update your resumes and start shopping for more compatible workplaces.
Its a strange coincidence I am reading this article even as I am thinking about what's wrong with many of my clients. I am a freelancer from India and have often heard this "we don't need no understanding of users - here's what we want to do - now go fetch me the 'wireframes' in 2 hours" sequence, simply because the right path costs money which is perceived as unnecessary expense.
Most clients don't want me to talk to the users because they claim to have 'the necessary experience' on user behavior and habits.
I disagree as well. This may be the case for a few individuals but what I've learned most from working with other UX people is that we aren't all the same. There are those who are "doers" and have a task at hand to create wireframes which is all they do with out understanding the problem to be solved.
Then, and there are much fewer of these, are the rest of us who know that the only way to completely solve the problem is to understand it completely. We move away from the placement of buttons and jump directly to what the project is, what the business requirements are and move forward from there once we have an understanding of what everyone wants. In doing so, we also task ourselves with pushing back when the business requirements are going down the wrong path or when an unforseen issue comes to the surface that the stakeholders did not, and could not have seen during the inception phase.
I consider myself to be a rare bird among UX people these days unfortunately, but lets not be quick to categorize all of us with de-evolution.
Ok. I'm old. Well 44, but in internet years that is kinda crusty. I have been an IA by title since 2000 and by practice since 1998. I have worked inside huge corporations and small agencies. I have definitely noticed a trend towards pictures-first design. I believe this comes from the pressure to "show progress" to our clients, and to them that means screens and prototypes. In my experience the clients we work for (both internal and external) do not understand the need to build systems of categorization and organization. In JJG's planes of user experience they blow past strategy, bum rush scope, ignore structure, get confused by the skeleton, and ask to see the surface right away. We fight against that, but in many cases it is a losing battle.
I totally disagree that the IA-step is being skipped by UX practitioners (or I am completely misunderstanding your definition of the IA step). As chrisdetzi points out, I see now an even bigger integration of IA in UX design than 5 years ago.
It should be obvious for all UX designers that information about the content, context and users should always precede the creation of wireframes and visual design. The benefits that comes with observing users, their needs and their context before actually designing something is the reason the UX field even exists! Furthermore, the importance of using knowledge of users as input to design is barely mentioned in your text, which I find a bit strange.
Maybe I'm just being an old UX whiner when I say that this article's preaching to the choir. However, I strongly disagree to the claim of UX design being in a state of "de-evolution".
I do a lot of work in the WordPress/Genesis arena. I actually just gave a talk about this at WordCamp San Diego. I agree, we see this a lot, especially in smaller projects where a single designer/developer completes the project (one who often has no formal training in traditional web design), or a business owner works on their own. Since it's easy to install WordPress and relatively inexpensive to install a professional-looking premium theme, they skip some of the most important steps of the design process...namely the Discovery and IA phases (I'm old school, lol!).
I'm hoping that by educating designers and clients about the concrete benefits of investing the time and effort it takes to complete this step, we'll have a UX revolution.
I think that you're making some broad generalizations. What evidence supports the premise that IA is being "skipped" by UX Designers? Perhaps you're equating the adoption of a new title (eg, UX Designer) or development of new techniques (eg, sketching) with the shedding of a fundamental process (creating an Information Architecture), but I don't necessarily see it that way. Many UX Designers that I know are well-versed in IA and do it all the time. In fact, the 2012 "Information Architecture Summit" just wrapped and boasted the largest attendance in its 13 year history.
If anything, I see UX as a field that continues to move forward and practitioners thinking even more broadly about the design problems we face and how to best solve them. Sure, some of the artifacts we produce to communicate those ideas may change, but I don't see a wholesale abandonment of the core IA principles.


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The Oakland County Sheriff's Office conducted an undercover prostitution sting which resulted in the arrest of 12 prostitutes. A number of complaints of illegal activities and prostitution along Baldwin Road corridor prompted the investigation. Undercover detectives carried out the sting during the month of October at Baldwin Road and Huron Street. Eight of the women in custody pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 93 days in jail. The remaining four women have been released on bond awaiting court appearances. Police say the women range in age from 25 to 50 years old, and are from various towns including Pontiac, Waterford, Detroit and White Lake Township. NEWS RELEASE FROM OAKLAND COUNTY: November 1, 2013 (Oakland County) - The Oakland County Sheriff's Office, as part of an ongoing and targeted effort to address quality of life issues for the residents of the Baldwin Rd. corridor in Pontiac, conducted an undercover prostitution sting which resulted in the arrest of twelve prostitutes. The Sheriff's Pontiac substation has received numerous complaints of illegal activities and prostitution along the Baldwin Road corridor. As a result, Sheriff's detectives initiated surveillance and a sting operation. During the month of October, undercover detectives working out of the Sheriff's Pontiac Substation were solicited for sex in exchange for money at Baldwin Rd. and Huron St. As a result, twelve prostitutes were arrested and taken into custody, eight of whom pled guilty and were sentenced by Judge Thomas of the 50th District Court of Pontiac to 93 days in the Oakland County Jail. The remaining four were released on bonds pending court appearances. Eight of the women are from Pontiac, ages 25, 29, 30, 32, 34, 41, 44, and 50; two of the women are from Waterford, ages 35 and 50; one is from Detroit, age 34; and one is from White Lake Twp., age 35. "These sorts of illegal activities degrade a neighborhood and will not be tolerated in Pontiac or anywhere else in Oakland County," said Sheriff Bouchard. "Anyone having information about these or other types of crimes in Pontiac are encouraged to contact us. I thank citizens for making these specific complaints as active and involved citizens make for a safer community."
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