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INFORMATION

ARCHITECTURE
UX and Web Design
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
*Richard Saul Wurman

Mon The art and science of


The combination of organization,
structuring and classifying
labeling, and navigation
Tue websites and intranets to help
schemes within an information
people find and manage
system
information.
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Thu An emerging discipline and


The structural design of an
community of practice focused on
information space to facilitate
bringing principles of design and
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architecture to the digital
access to content.
landscape
INFORMATION OVERLOAD

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COHERENCE ACROSS CHANNELS

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Consistency is the capability of a pervasive information architecture to serve the contexts it is designed for, and to
preserve this logic across different media, environments, and uses
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INFORMATION ECOLOGY
Business goals, funding,
politics, culture, technology,
Context resources, and constraints
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Document/data types,
Content Users Audience, tasks, needs,
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information-seeking
existing structure
behavior, experience
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The three circles illustrate the interdependent nature of users, content, and context within a complex, adaptive
information ecology.
INFORMATION COMPLEXITY

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Information Architecture = Making sense of complexity
Complexity = Content + Meaning + Interpretation
INFORMATION COMPLEXITY

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INFORMATION COMPLEXITY

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Thoughtful IA makes a design good, not just good looking.
INFORMATION COMPLEXITY

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Thoughtful IA makes a design good, not just good looking.
PRINCIPLES OF IA

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PRINCIPLES OF IA
A content is a living thing with its lifecycle, behaviors, and attributes.

The pages of a product should offer a number of meaningful choices to users.


Mon The users mustn’t be overloaded with information

Tue Show examples of the contents.

Wed Assume at least half of the visitors will not come through the home page.

Offer users several classification schemes to browse the site’s content


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Don’t mix different categories in your navigation scheme.
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Assume the content is a small fraction of the content you will have tomorrow.
Designing information architecture

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Organize through visual
hierarchy then create a
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different types of
features, interactions, and
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Designing information architecture

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CONTENT INVENTORY
Create a list of information elements on all the pages of a website and classify them by topic and sub-topic.
Designing information architecture

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TAXONOMY
An attempt to group different unstructured pieces of information and give them descriptions.
Designing information architecture

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HIERARCHICAL NAVIGATION
Shows the information hierarchy from main elements to their sub-categories.
Designing information architecture

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SITE-WIDE NAVIGATION
present across all the pages, this navigation enables the users to get to the main page from every location
Designing information architecture

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LOCAL NAVIGATION
Shows the navigation of a specific area: a page or a part of a site and its content.
Designing information architecture

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CONTEXTUAL NAVIGATION
Relates to specific content, like document, page, video-audio object, or related products.
Designing information architecture

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LABELING
to attract user attention, giving a proper understanding of what to expect from clicking on a link.
Designing information architecture

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SITE MAP
a way to illustrate the hierarchy of content and display navigation.
Designing information architecture
Flat Structure

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Index Pages Pattern Strict hierarchy pattern Co-existing hierarchies pattern
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RESOURCES

● Arango, J., Morville, P., & Rosenfeld, L. (2015). Information


Architecture: For the Web and Beyond. O’Reilly Media, Inc.:
Mon Sebastopol, CA

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