Information architecture the design and integration of information spaces /
Information Architecture is about organizing and simplifying information, designing and integrating information spaces/systems, and creating ways for people to find and interact with information content. Its goal is to help people understand and manage information and make right decisions accordingl...
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2010.
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Series: | Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online),
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Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Information architecture concepts
- The definition of information architecture
- Wurman's definition of information architect
- Rosenfield and Morville's definition
- The definition used in this book
- The evolution of the web and web design
- Information architecture and related disciplines
- 2. Information architecture and web 2.0
- The changing world wide web
- The size and growth of the web
- The deep web
- The dynamics of the web
- Generations of the web
- Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 applications and products
- Summary of web 2.0
- Challenges and opportunities for the IA and design community
- Giving users control vs. giving up on design
- Leveraging content from others and expecting others to use your content
- Taxonomy vs. folksonomy
- Standing on the giant's shoulder and managing risks of dependency
- Using or not using web 2.0
- Summary
- 3. IA research, design and evaluation
- Research
- The need for research
- Research methods
- User personas and personarios
- Design
- Design methodology
- Design process
- Design deliverables
- From design to implementation
- Evaluation
- Design walkthrough
- Heuristics evaluation
- Website logs and web usage mining
- 4. Organization and navigation systems
- Logical organization
- Semantic organization
- Metadata
- Controlled vocabularies
- Faceted classification
- Folksonomy
- Navigation systems
- Purpose of navigation
- Navigation types
- Global and sectional navigation
- Local navigation
- Supplemental navigation
- Process navigation
- Search systems.
- 5. User information behavior and design implications
- Understanding user needs and information behavior
- How people use websites
- Theories and principles about user information behavior
- The principle of least effort and user's information behavior
- Paradox of choice: more is less
- The berry-picking information behavior model
- The information scent theory
- Basic level categories
- Design implications
- Homepage vs. interior pages
- Short pages vs. long pages
- Design for search systems
- The 3-click rule revisit
- Conclusion
- 6. Interaction design
- Interaction design components
- Views, forms, and workflows
- Filters and controls
- Rich internet applications
- Interaction design principles
- Fitt's law: design for Fitts
- Design for color blindness
- Design for affordance
- Design for efficiency
- Design for forgiveness
- Design for user perceptions
- Design for help
- Personalization and customization
- 7. Enterprise IA and IA in practice
- Enterprise information architecture
- Intranet strategy and design
- Common intranet uses and features
- A case study: the enterprise intranet of the Vanguard Group
- Intranet models
- Online workspace aggregation (OWA)
- Problem definition
- Early solution and issues
- User research and data analysis
- New solution: an enterprise workspace framework
- Summary
- Practising information architecture
- Makeup of a user experience design team
- Specialists vs. generalists
- Centralized vs. distributed organizational models
- Maximizing the IA impact
- Desired competencies and skill set for IAs.
- 8. Global information architecture
- Makeup of the world's internet users
- The need for internationalization and localization
- Cross-culture theories and localization
- High context vs. low context culture types
- Hofstede's five cultural dimensions
- Cultural interpretations of usability
- Guidelines for global IA and user experience design
- Pay attention to language details
- Deal with the combination of languages and countries
- Be culturally sensitive
- Supporting global ecommerce
- Summary
- 9. Mobile information architecture
- Mobile trends and usage data
- What do users do with mobile devices
- Characteristics of mobile devices, access anywhere anytime
- Dimensions of the mobile user experience
- Designing for mobile devices
- Design challenges
- Guidelines and best practices for mobile experience design
- The continued evolution of mobile user experience
- 10. The future of information architecture
- The IA community
- Challenges for information architects
- Challenge of IA, findability and re-findability
- Challenge of IA, design patterns and theories
- Challenge of IA, content representation
- Challenge of IA, ubiquitous information access
- Challenge of IA, digital preservation
- IA and research
- IA and beyond
- Bibliography
- Authors' biographies.