Hermeneutics - HELP

Maybe it is the vacation - it certainly can't be the hot summerweather - anyways, I have got this void feeling about my research: what do I really know, what is the firm ground when researching Information Architecture and Information Ecology? I keep coming back to hermeneutics and to embodied cognitive semantics and to space as a phenomenon in a phenomenological sense - but I wonder if that can lead to improvements in design, still I keep trying to find my way