Jason Fried of 37signals is making an interesting point, there is no common concise answer to what the terms means.

Three years ago I threw together this definition from various sources:

Information architecture (IA) is primarily about cognition - how people process information and construe relationships between different pieces of information. Information design is primarily about perception - how people translate what they see and hear into knowledge.

These days I tend to believe "I don’t know, but I’m sure the information architect does" and "Information Architect (noun): title invented by web designers desiring a software engineer’s salary."

Read: An exercise in clarity: Explain "Information Architecture" in 10 words or less

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