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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Some additional thoughts and techniques that illustrate the topic

  1. a relevant article from the Nielsen Norman Group
    Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches
  2. Card sorting: a definitive guide by Donna Spencer April 7th, 2004 in Boxes and Arrows

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Optional items which you may wish to investigate

Hudson, William

Card Sorting Part 1: Preparing Paper Sorts

Card Sorting Part 2: Basic Analysis (Paper and Online Sorts)

Some tools

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