Information Architecture

Author : Louis Rosenfeld
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9780596000356
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web written by Louis Rosenfeld and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's web sites and intranets are larger, more valuable, and more complex than ever before, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and corporate politics, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city -roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. A well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition, shows how to use both aesthetics and mechanics to create distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate either on the graphics or on the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together. By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build scalable and maintainable web sites that are easier to navigate and more appealing to your users. Using examples and case studies, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web will help you: Develop a strong, cohesive vision for your site that makes it both distinctive and usable; Organize your site's hierarchy in ways that are meaningful to its users and that minimize the need to re-engineer the site; Create navigation systems that allow users to move through the site without getting lost or frustrated; Accurately label your site's content; Organize your site in a way that supports both searching for specific items and casual browsing; Configure search systems so that users' queries actually retrieve meaningful results; Manage the process of developing an information architecture, from selling the concept to research and conceptual design to planning and production. "The world will be a better place when web designers read this book. It's smart, funny, and artfully distills years of the authors' bard-won experience. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tackles political/organizational challenges as well as content, structure, and user interface. This is not design-lite, but a deep treatment of fundamental issues of information presentation that advances the state of the art. It's light years ahead of the competition." -Bonnie Nardi, Co-author of Information Ecologies- Using Technology with Heart

Author : Donna Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956174048
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Guide to Information Architecture written by Donna Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christina Wodtke
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132104253
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Architecture written by Christina Wodtke and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, Second Edition introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing website interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book helps designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid costly mistakes by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly.

Author : Martyn Dade-Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136807950
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Information written by Martyn Dade-Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the relationship between information and its representation. The organization of digital information has relied on metaphors from a pre-digital era – architectural ideas in particular, from the urbanisation of cyberspace in science fiction, through to the adoption of spatial visualizations in the design of graphical user interfaces. This book encourages creative thinking around this subject and will be of interest to all studying design theory.

Author : Andrea Resmini
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780123820952
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Information Architecture written by Andrea Resmini and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pervasive Information Architecture explains the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of pervasive information architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories. It offers insights about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges. The book will help readers master agile information structures while meeting their unique needs on such devices as smart phones, GPS systems, and tablets. The book provides examples showing how to: model and shape information to adapt itself to users’ needs, goals, and seeking strategies; reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces; and alleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services, and goods. It also describes relevant connections between pieces of information, services and goods to help users achieve their goals. This book will be of value to practitioners, researchers, academics, andstudents in user experience design, usability, information architecture, interaction design, HCI, web interaction/interface designer, mobile application design/development, and information design. Architects and industrial designers moving into the digital realm will also find this book helpful. Master agile information structures while meeting the unique user needs on such devices as smart phones, GPS systems, and tablets Find out the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of pervasive information architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories Learn about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges

Author : Richard Saul Wurman
Publisher : Graphis Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781888001389
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Architects written by Richard Saul Wurman and published by Graphis Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book, now available in paperback, reports on an explosive new design field: the design of information to improve, clarify, and facilitate processes of communication and learning. As the world responds to a burgeoning information superhighway, the structure and design of data becomes increasingly important. This book shows how the presentation of information can make complex material clear and accessible. To illustrate, the book presents projects by 20 world-class designers, including David Macaulay, Clement Mok, Nigel Holmes, Peter Bradford, and Krzysztof Lenk. Each contributor has provided an essay describing his or her project and the process involved in its development.

Author : Abby Covert
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781500615994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make Sense of Any Mess written by Abby Covert and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is getting more complex. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of information we encounter each day. Whether at work, at school, or in our personal endeavors, there's a deepening (and inescapable) need for people to work with and understand information. Information architecture is the way that we arrange the parts of something to make it understandable as a whole. When we make things for others to use, the architecture of information that we choose greatly affects our ability to deliver our intended message to our users.We all face messes made of information and people. This book defines the word "mess" the same way that most dictionaries do: "A situation where the interactions between people and information are confusing or full of difficulties." - Who doesn't bump up against messes made of information and people every day? How to Make Sense of Any Mess provides a seven step process for making sense of any mess. Each chapter contains a set of lessons as well as workbook exercises architected to help you to work through your own mess.

Author : Peter Van Dijck
Publisher : Rotovision
ISBN 13 : 9782880467319
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Architecture for Designers written by Peter Van Dijck and published by Rotovision. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Architecture for Designers introduces the skills and technique of effective information design for the web in approachable, accessible, and logical languages. Crammed with practical step-by-step processes, and connected to its own website with off-the-peg downloadable and useable templates, the book is a practical solution for designers who need these new skills. It will be a standard text for professional and education design libraries for years to come.

Author : Tony Russell-Rose
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0123969816
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing the Search Experience written by Tony Russell-Rose and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. In this book, the authors weave together the theories of information seeking with the practice of user interface design.

Author : Andrea Resmini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319064924
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reframing Information Architecture written by Andrea Resmini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend easily and our activities and usage of information takes place through multiple contexts and via multiple devices and unstable, emergent choreographies. Information architecture now is steadily growing into a channel- or medium-specific multi-disciplinary framework, with contributions coming from architecture, urban planning, design and systems thinking, cognitive science, new media, anthropology. All these have been heavily reshaping the practice: conversations about labelling, websites, and hierarchies are replaced by conversations about sense-making, place-making, design, architecture, cross media, complexity, embodied cognition and their application to the architecture of information spaces as places we live in in an increasingly large part of our lives. Via narratives, frameworks, references, approaches and case-studies this book explores these changes and offers a way to reconceptualize the shifting role and nature of information architecture where information permeates digital and physical space, users are producers and products are increasingly becoming complex cross-channel or multi-channel services.