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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

1. Organization
2. Labeling
3. Navigation
4. Searching

User Centered Design

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

Iterative Design

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