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Anatomy of an IAInformation Architecture
Anatomy of Information Architecture
• Information architecture components:– Organizational systems: How do we categorize
information (e.g. by subject or chronology)
– Labeling Systems: How we represent information (e.g. scientific terminology or lay terminology)
– Navigation Systems: How we browse or move through the information(e.g. clicking through hierarchies)
– Searching Systems: How we search information.
Can you identify the Information Architecture components in this page?
Information Architecture components:
• Organization system
Information Architecture components:
• Organization system
• Labeling System
Information Architecture components:
• Organization system
• Labeling System
• Navigation System
Information Architecture components:
• Organization system
• Labeling System
• Navigation System
• Search System
Information Architecture components:
• Organization system
• Labeling System
• Navigation System
• Search System
Anatomy of an Information Architecture
• Try to identify the information architecture elements of the following web sites:– Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com )– Amazon (www.amazon.com )
Alternative IA Components
• Browsing Aids
• Search Aids
• Content and Tasks
• Invisible Components
Browsing Aids
• Organization Systems
• Site-wide navigations systems
• Local navigation systems
• Sitemaps
• Contextual navigation systems
Search Aids
• Search Interface
• Query Builders
• Search Results
Content & Tasks
• Headings
• Embedded links
• Metadata
• Lists
Invisible Components
• Controlled vocabulary
• Retrieval Algorithms – Ranks search results by relevance– Do you think this really works or is true?
Discussion
• Discussion Question #1
