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'''Class Goals'''
 
'''Class Goals'''
#Introduce students to the concept of information architecture
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#Discuss IA components (Organization, Labeling, Navigation, and Searching)
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#Discuss users, prototyping, and iterative design
  
 
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Project 3 proposal due
  
 
=Information Architecture=
 
=Information Architecture=
==Introduction to Information Architecture==
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==IA Components==
IA definition, what it is, what it isn't
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===Organization===
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===Labeling===
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===Navigation Systems===
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#Global Navigation
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#Local Navigation
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#Contextual Navigation
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===Searching===
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==Orientation==
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#Where am I?
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#Where can I go?
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#Where have I been?
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==User Centered Design==
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#Basic steps in user centered design
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#Rapid prototyping with paper
  
Users/content/context
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==Iterative Design==
  
User needs and behaviors (thinking about systems for users who don't know what they're looking for)
 
  
IA challenges (ambiguity, heterogeneity, different perspectives, internal politics)
 
  
Organization schemes (exact, ambiguous)
 
  
Organizational structures (top-down, bottom-up)
 
  
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===Supplemental Navigation Systems===
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#Sitemaps
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#Indexes
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#Guides
 
==Presentations==
 
==Presentations==
 
Present [[AIM Assignment 7]] : CSS Zen
 
Present [[AIM Assignment 7]] : CSS Zen
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===Reading===
 
===Reading===
  
Pause & Effect: pgs. 37-45, 53-59, 142-146<br>
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Pause and Effect: pgs. 60-69, 230-231
  
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Chapter 4: The Anatomy of an Information Architecture pages 39-49
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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
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#Organization and Structure: 89-119
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#Findability: 126-128
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#Controlled Vocabulary: 136-140
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#Personas: 156-167
  
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke - Users and Prototyping: 69-70, 81-87
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
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Chapter 7: Navigation Systems pages 106-131

Latest revision as of 16:03, 5 August 2008

view AIM Assignment 8: Reframing Content


Class Goals

  1. Discuss IA components (Organization, Labeling, Navigation, and Searching)
  2. Discuss users, prototyping, and iterative design

Project 3 proposal due

Information Architecture

IA Components

Organization

Labeling

Navigation Systems

  1. Global Navigation
  2. Local Navigation
  3. Contextual Navigation

Searching

Orientation

  1. Where am I?
  2. Where can I go?
  3. Where have I been?

User Centered Design

  1. Basic steps in user centered design
  2. Rapid prototyping with paper

Iterative Design

Supplemental Navigation Systems

  1. Sitemaps
  2. Indexes
  3. Guides

Presentations

Present AIM Assignment 7 : CSS Zen

Project 3 Overview

Introduce AIM Project 3 (proposal due Week 11)

Homework

AIM Assignment 8 (due Week 11)
Takehome Quiz: PE and IA readings

Reading

Pause and Effect: pgs. 60-69, 230-231

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke

  1. Organization and Structure: 89-119
  2. Findability: 126-128
  3. Controlled Vocabulary: 136-140
  4. Personas: 156-167

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Chapter 7: Navigation Systems pages 106-131