Information is going everywhere, bleeding out of we thought was cyberspace and back into the real world: Internet access has moved into cellphones and hand-held devices; social networks are now mobile and constantly connect physically separated users producing unexpected scenarios; shopping remixes web sites, brick and mortar stores, and user-generated content in novelty ways; devices acquire uniqueness, stories, and a capability to generate meaning.

Many tasks we perform every day not only constantly require us to move between different media, but actually have us move from the digital to the physical environment and back: we talk about convergence, ubiquitous computing, media ecologies, and cross-media. What role do information architecture and user experience design play in such a scenario?