AIM Class11

view AIM Assignment 8: Reframing Content

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Class Goals

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

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Project 3 proposal due

Information Architecture

IA Components

Navigation Systems

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

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