Noob question for sure. I’ve seen @HAWK use it multiple times.
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Not at all. It’s a UX term and I should have expanded on it. 
Information Architecture.
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A bit jargon-y for my tastes, personally.
Perhaps in CM circles but in UX it’s a very standard and frequently used term. Def not jargon.
I would say via programming circles it is a bit jargony and should be avoided. UX for example is wayyy more common. And UI is well understood as an abbreviation.
A quick Google turn info architecture up as the first result. 
Right but nobody needs to google “UI” or “UX”, that is kinda the point. They are in wide usage.
Like any abbreviation, I suspect this started because it was being repeatedly written. I write it frequently so I tend to use the abbreviation. I’m not sure why we’re actually debating this…
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I’ve a few books with this title in my library and … I’m not fond of the genre as a whole. 
Before asking, I googled a few queries like community IA and got nothing useful. Ironically just searching for bare IA would have been better.
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