< Irwin Chen

Information Architecture / User Experience

Examples from behind the scenes 


“New York Web site designer Irwin Chen, 23, wants to understand the formal structures of language and music so that he can fashion new media that, like the simplest books and songs, “create a universe.”

—Karrie Jacobs, “Electronic Youth”
I.D. Magazine, May/June 1996
“Feed offers the best argument yet for on-line publishing by serving up a constantly updated mix of irreverent news and pointed commentary, accompanied by plenty of hypertext links to the rest of the Web.”

— John Markoff and Tim Race, “Wizards, Wonders and Wonks”
The New York Times Magazine, September 28, 1997
The extent to which human social interaction can be reduced to a set of equations is just one revelation of The Sims...And soon, with the possibility of creating “voodoo” families with customized skins and downloadable custom-built furniture, real life for some may begin to look a lot like The Sims.
— Irwin Chen,  Review of The Sims
I.D. Magazine, March/April 2000