Abby Covert wrote a brilliant and passionate plea for a return to the basic principles of Information Architecture in our design work. From The Pain With No Name:

In too many cases, educational programs in design and technology have stopped teaching or even talking about IA. Professionals in the web industry have stopped teaching their clients about its importance. Reasons for this include “navigation is dead,” “the web is bottom up, not top down,” and “search overthrew structure”—but these all frame IA as a pattern or fad that went out with tree controls being used as navigation.

These misconceptions need to be addressed if we are going to deal with the reality of the impending “tsunami of information” approaching our shores. The need for clarity will never go out of style, and neither will the importance of language and structure. We will always need to have semantic and structural arguments to get good work done.