information architecture

Excerpt: Three Stages of Interactive Design

From Interactivity By Design: Creating & Communicating with New Media by Ray Kristof and Amy Satran (1995, Adobe Press; ISBN 1568302215; Amazon | B&N.com) Critical Tasks of Information Design Define goals for the product Define what the audience wants to do Decide how the product will reach its audience Choose the authoring tool Create a content inventory… Read More »

Excerpt: Information Architecture

Almost all of the notes for this lecture are derived from the book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Site by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville (1998, O’Reilly & Associates; ISBN 1402874545; Amazon | B&N.com) Information architecture can loosely be defined as organizing content, especially organizing into classifications, and creating a labeling system… Read More »