I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
Jesse J. Garrett

Content is often the reason users come to your site.
Jesse J. Garrett

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.
Jesse J. Garrett

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
Jesse J. Garrett

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
Jesse J. Garrett

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
Jesse J. Garrett

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
Jesse J. Garrett

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
Jesse J. Garrett