Information Architecture/meaning associated
Read these to prepare for class discussion
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Universal principles of design
The Principle of Hierarchy, 123 -
Universal principles of design
The Principle of Storytelling, 230 -
a relevant article from the Nielsen Norman Group
Flat vs. Deep Website Hierarchies -
Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. (2006).
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web 3rd ed.
Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
[TK5105.888 .R67 2007 or from Safari Books Online]
Chapter 5, Organization Systems -
Toms, E. G. (2002).
Information interaction:
providing a framework for information architecture.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(10),
855-862.
[PDF] -
Withrow, J. (2002).
Do your links stink?
Techniques for good web information scent.
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 28(5),
7-9.
[online]
Optional readings which may come up in class discussions
Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Elgin, P. D. (2002).
Users' schemata of hypermedia:
What is so spatial about a Website?
Interacting with Computers, 14(5), 487-502.
[PDF]
Eschenfelder, K. (2003).
The customer is always right,
but whose customer is more important?: Conflict and Web site classification schemes.
Information Technology & People, 16(4), 419-439.
[PDF]
Greene, S., Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., & Shneiderman, B. (2000).
Previews and overviews in digital libraries:
designing surrogates to support visual information seeking.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(4): 380-393.
[PDF]
Useful, but not available online
Fleming, J. (1998).
Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience.
Beijing: O'Reilly.
[TK5105.888 .F64 1998]
Chapter 4, Site architecture, 45-58 only
Conger, S., & Mason, R. O. (1998).
Planning and Designing Effective Web Sites.
Cambridge, MA: Course Technology.
[TK5105.888 .C655 1998]
Chapter 4, Information decomposition and information structuring, p61-80 only
Kahn, P., & Lenk, K. (2001).
Mapping Web Sites.
Crans-Prés-Cèligny, Switzerland: RotoVision.
[TK5105.888 .K33 2001 folio]
Maglio, P. P., & Matlock, T. (1999).
The conceptual structure of information space.
In Munro, A. J., Höök, K., & Benyon, D. (eds.),
Social Navigation of Information Space.
London: Springer, 155-173.
[QA76.9.C66 S625 1999]
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