Information Architecture

“The Anatomy of an information Architecture” by Morville and Rosenfeld.

Dylan Barnes

There needs to be a way to navigate!

The New Challenge

“The challenge facing organisations is how to guide people through the vast

amount of information on offer, so they can successfully find the information they want and thus find value in the

system?”

- Iain Barker

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_whatisinfoarch/index.html

“The art and science of organizing information to help people effectively fulfill their information

needs. Information architecture involves investigation, analysis, design and

implementation.” - Kat Hagedorn , Argus Associates

http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/ia_glossary.pdf

Definition

What is Information Architecture?

http://iatelevision.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-set-up-information-architecture.html

TOP DOWN

• Where am i?• I want to search for

something.• How do I get around

the site?• What’s happening? • What's available?

• http://www.smh.com.au/

Bottom Up

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/maddie-the-strongest-girl-in-the-world-20110805-1iex6.html

Bottom Up

Where can I go from here?

What’s here?

Where am I?

Bibliography • Barker, Iain. 2005. “What is information architecture?”, www.steptwo.com.au. Accessed from

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_whatisinfoarch/index.html

• Kat Hagedorn, 2000. “THE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE GLOSSARY” The Argus Centre for Information Architecture, available from http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/ia_glossary.pdf.

• Martin Belam, 2010. “What is 'Information Architecture'?”, guardian.co.uk. Available from http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2010/feb/02/what-is-information-architecture

• R. E. Wyllys, 2000. “Information Architecture”, The University of Texas. Available from http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html

• Information Architecture Television, 2011. “How to set up information architecture“, Information Architecture Television, available from http://iatelevision.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-set-up-information-architecture.html

• Morville, P and Rosenfeld, L 2006. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web 3rd edition., Sebastopol: O’reilly, pp. 41-54.