Although today's class is cancelled, and we will merge some of this into Thursday's class, you might find it useful to look at the videos, the readings, and the slides.

Information Architecture

Watch these to prepare yourselves for the session

Information in video form

Explaining IA

explaining information architecture from Dan Klyn on Vimeo.

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Morville's IA book

Information in text form

Morville, P., Rosenfeld, L., & Rosenfeld, L..
Chapter 3: User Needs and Behavior, 30-38,
in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
3rd ed. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly, 2006.

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Questions to consider

  1. ontology?
  2. taxonomy?
  3. choreography?

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