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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web |
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Eye opening |
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2007-02-25 08:27:58 |
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ueberhund
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This book really opened my eyes, as I haven’t really thought about Information Architecture as a discipline, which is probably a natural thing for me, as I am a programmer. What I found intriguing about this book is the “take a step back” approach by the authors to analyze a business’s overall strategy for user experience. This forces the product owner to ask: how should users find things on this site? What kind of things would I want to find as a user? How can the site’s navigation be improved to promote easier searching? The answers to these types of questions and help your Information Architect begin to formulate on overall architecture strategy.
After a good introduction to what IA is, the authors take the reader through the basic principles of this discipline. In this section, the authors discuss organization and labeling of systems, navigation, and searching. In the third section of the book, the authors go into the practice of actually implementing the principles in the previous section. Finally, the authors examine case studies from two different sites, where they examine how IA fit into the overall goal of the application.
I felt this book gave me a basic understanding of what Information Architecture is, and what types of things to look out for in developing an IA strategy. I would recommend this book if you have large amounts of data you want web users to have access to.
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"If you are interested in this important discipline, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web should be the first book you read on the subject."
--Eddie VanArsdall, Technical Communication
