Information Architecture is both an art and science of organizing and structuring your content in such a way that it is very intuitive for the end-user to navigate. As such, Information Architecture is a subset of the User Experience Design field.
The output of Information Architecture is typically a set of wire-frames that depicts that design. It may also define a taxonomy to classify information (e.g. content, products), using a tree-structure hierarchy.
Other outputs for IA include site maps, annotated page layouts, page templates, personas, storyboards.
To put it in other words, IA answers the following questions:
Jotting down a few links on IA that are worth a perusal.
http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2010/feb/02/what-is-information-architecture
http://boxesandarrows.com/category/design-principles/
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/web2/infoarch/index.htm
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_whatisinfoarch
The output of Information Architecture is typically a set of wire-frames that depicts that design. It may also define a taxonomy to classify information (e.g. content, products), using a tree-structure hierarchy.
Other outputs for IA include site maps, annotated page layouts, page templates, personas, storyboards.
To put it in other words, IA answers the following questions:
- How do you categorize and structure information?
- How do you label information? e.g. 'Contact Us' label would hold all details on contact info.
- How users navigate through information?
- How users search for information?
Jotting down a few links on IA that are worth a perusal.
http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2010/feb/02/what-is-information-architecture
http://boxesandarrows.com/category/design-principles/
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/web2/infoarch/index.htm
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_whatisinfoarch
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