Wiesława Osińska
The information message currently dominating the web makes extensive use of images. These can be photographs documenting the content, drawings and sketches of the author or visualisations of relevant factual data. Information architecture, therefore – as a discipline concerned with the design of information structures in the broadest sense – is supposed to take into account modules that fulfil the role of visual stimuli. On the other hand, complex visualisations, especially interactive ones, benefit from the proven principles of information architecture. The author considers the cross-fertilisation and benefits of information architecture and visualisation at different levels of use and signals the need for new approaches in the design of information structures.