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

Revision as of 22:22, 29 August 2006

view AIM Assignment 8: Reframing Content


Class Goals

  1. Introduce students to the concept of information architecture

Project 3 proposal due

Information Architecture

Introduction to Information Architecture

IA definition, what it is, what it isn't

Users/content/context

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)

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