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Introduction to Information Architecture & DesignSchool of Visual Arts | March 19, 2016 Robert Stribley

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Today’s presentation will be available on SlideShare following the workshop:

www.slideshare.net/stribs

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Butterfly on the New York City Highline

Pattern Recognition:

In cognitive psychology, the ability to identify familiar forms within a complex arrangement of sensory stimuli 

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Butterflies Labeled by Species

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Intro

Robert Stribley@stribs

• I’m an Associate Experience Director at Razorfish

• I like literature, cinema, music, photography, cycling

• I drink coffee

Introduction

My clients have included:

• Bank of America, PNC, Wachovia• JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley,

Oppenheimer Funds, PNC, Prudential, Smith Barney, T. Rowe Price

• Boston Scientific, Nasonex• Brizo, Delta Faucets• Choice Hotels, RCI,

Reaology/Sotheby’s International• Computer Associates, EMC• Ford, Lincoln, Mercedes Benz,

smart• FreshDirect• AT&T, Nextel• Day One, Red Cross• Pearson, Travel Channel, Women’s

Wear Daily

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About You

•What’s your name?•What do you do for work?•What do you do for fun?•Coffee, tea or bottled water?

Introduction

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Intro

Goals of this workshop

•Understand the basic concepts of information architecture•Experience the general process and techniques used on a design project•Review the basic deliverables an information architect develops within a project

Introduction

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Agenda

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Agenda

Morning• Background• Design Process• Our Project• User Research• Competitive Review• Personas• Lunch

Agenda

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Afternoon• Card Sorting• Site Maps• Page Types• Navigation• Sketching• Wireframes• Q&A

Agenda

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Background

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Background: History

A Brief History of IA1975 • Richard Saul Wurman coined the term

“information architecture” to describe the field now more often described as “information design”

1994• Argus Associates founded in Ann Arbor, MI,

the first firm devoted to IA

1998• First edition of Peter Morville and Lou

Rosenfeld’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, affectionately known as “The Polar Bear” book

2000• First IA Summit, Boston, MA – Defining

Information Architecture

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Partially adapted from: “A brief history of information architecture” by Peter Morville and Information Architecture: Designing information environments for purpose, edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon

A Brief History of IA2002• Boxes & Arrows, online journal for information

architects goes live• 3 new books on IA published, including Jesse

James Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience

2014• Capital One purchases Garrett’s UX-consulting

firm Adaptive Path

2016• 16th Annual IA Summit held in Atlanta, GA, May

4-8: “A Broader Panorama”

Background: History

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in•for•ma•tion ar•chi•tec•ture n.

• The combination of organization, labeling, and navigation schemes within an information system.

• The structural design of an information space to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content.

• The art and science of structuring and classifying web sites and intranets to help people find and manage information.

• An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (1st Edition), p. 4, Rosenfeld and Morville

Navigation

Interaction

Art/Science

Discipline/ Community

Background: Defining IA

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“It's hard to say who really is an information architect. In some sense, we all are.”

— Alex Wright, Glut

Background: Defining IA

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userscontent

context

IA

Background: Defining IA

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Interface(skin)

information architecture(skeleton)

Background: Defining IA

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Design Process

metaphor: architectural plans

Flickr.com: Cornell University Library

Background: Defining IA

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UXinformation architecture

Background: User Experience

interaction design

content strategy

usability testing

user research

user experience

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Image by Oliver Reichenstein on flickr

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Design Process

Project phases by Harold Kerzner

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Discovery

Definition

Design Development

Design Process

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Discovery

Definition

Design Development

• Stakeholder Interviews• Business Requirements• Feature Prioritization Matrix• Competitive/Comparative Audit• User Research• Site Inventory• Site Map

Design Process

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Discovery

Definition

Design Development

•Personas•Content Audit•Card Sorts•Use Cases•Site Map•User Journeys•Sketching•Conceptual Wires/Design•Experience Brief

Design Process

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Discovery

Definition

Design Development

• Site Map• Content Matrix• Task Flows• Sketching• Wireframes• Functional Specifications• Stakeholder Reviews• Visual Design• Prototype• Usability Testing

Design Process

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Discovery

Definition

Design Development•User Acceptance Testing (UAT)•Quality Assurance (QA)•Usability Testing

Design Process

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Our Project

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Events.comEvents.com wants to revamp its website to become the go-to online resource for people wanting to attend or promote events across the United States.

Our Project

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Discovery

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User Research

User Research in Copenhagen’s Elderly Homes

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User Research

“Through research, we aim to learn enough about the business goals, the users, and the information ecology to develop a solid strategy.”

– Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

Discovery: User Research

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Goals• Identify patterns and trends in user behavior, tasks, preferences, obstacles.

Methodology• Focus Groups• Surveys• Interviews

Discovery: User Research

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“[I]n a delicate inquiry like this, little is to be gained by distributing circulars. A single patient with the right sort of lesion and a scientific mind, carefully cross-examined, is more likely to deepen our knowledge than a thousand circulars answered as the average patient answers them, even though the answers be never so thoroughly collated by the investigator.”- William James, “The Consciousness of Lost Limbs,” 1887

Discovery: User Research

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Class Exercise: Survey Questions• How do you learn about events in NYC? • What type of events are you interested in?• What’s more important to you:– Price – Type of Event– Location– Date

• Do you ever need to promote an event?• Do you ever invite people to an event?

Discovery: User Research

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Competitive Review

image by brandon schauer

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“This type of assessment helps set an industry ‘marker’ by looking at what the competition is up to, what features and functionalities are standard, and how others have solved the same problems you might be tasked with.”– Dorelle Rabinowitz

Discovery: Competitive Review

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Heuristic Evaluation

… involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the ‘heuristics’)- Wikipedia

Self StudyFor a more detailed explanation of heuristic evaluation, see Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics.

Discovery: Competitive Review

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Sample Usability CriteriaThese examples aren’t comprehensive. Appropriate criteria will depend on the project to be completed.

Home Page• Elements are appropriately weighted and distributed• Information is clustered in meaningful waysNavigation•Navigation structure is concise and consistent• Paths to important information are intuitive and unobstructedContent• Content is content chunked appropriately•Headings and titles are scannable• Content is current. There are visible indications of content freshness.• Content is properly adapted for the Web. Tone of voice is consistent throughout.Design• Colors are appropriate for the Web. White space is used appropriately. Text is readable.Search• Search results are relevant and cleanly presentedFunctionality• Functionality and forms are efficiently designedMessaging• Errors messages are presented in clear language. Help readily available contextually to users• Appropriate channels are provided for user feedback

Discovery: Competitive Review

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Methodology

•Review and analyze competitor sites according to particular criteria (heuristics)•Draw key findings, which can influence and guide IA through the design phase• Include a scorecard for high-level comparison of points across all sites

Also: Comparative Reviews

Discovery: Competitive Review

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Discovery: Competitive Review

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Competitive Review

CompetitorsDiscovery: Competitive Review

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Competitive Review

Key Findings• Search is fairly prominent on each site• Filtering on events is valuable, but not always easily

available• Calendars are helpful, but not always prominent• Profiles and social features are handled with varying

degrees of detail• Free events are often highlighted• Event detail pages may have maps, RSVP, sharing, rating,

commenting functionality• Displaying other venues and restaurants adds utility• Option to add or promote an event isn’t always prominent

Discovery: Competitive Review

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What else have we learned?

• Who are the audiences of these sites?

• What are the strengths of these sites?

• What are their weaknesses?• How might another event site

differentiate itself from these sites?

Discovery: Competitive Review

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Definition

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Personas

Created at personas.media.mit.edu

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

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“Personas summarize user research findings and bring that research to life in such a way that everyone can make decisions based on these personas, not based on themselves.” – Steve Mulder, The User Is Always Right

Definition: Personas

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Methodology• Cluster Analysis

Goals• Create a

narrative based on real data to illustrate user behavior, motivations, goals

Small Budget

Big Budget

PlannerPromoter

Definition: Personas

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Characteristics of Effective Personas

• Varied and distinct• Detailed• Not weighed down with minutiae• Tied into business-specific goals• Backed by data

Definition: Personas

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Definition: Personas

SabrinaJenny DonnyJerry

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Sabrina, 27The party plannerLocation: Gramercy ParkAttitude: Organized, outgoingFinancial Perspective: Generous, bit of spendthriftOnline Habits: Avid user of social networking sites,

Twitter, Facebook, etcEvents: Wine tastings, gallery openingsQuote: “I love getting bunches of friends

together to attend all these NYC events. There’s so much great stuff to do in this city!”

Small Budget

Big Budget

PlannerPromoter

PersonasDefinition: Personas

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Jerry, 44The out-of-townerLocation:Cincinnati, OHAttitude: Casual, yet adventurousFinancial Perspective: Moderate spenderOnline Habits: Utilitarian use of the Web to

research trips, read about the arts and pay bills

Events: Museums, visiting landmarks, toursQuote: “I’m visiting the Big Apple with my

wife and we want to check out some art-related events.”

Small Budget

Big Budget

PlannerPromoter

Definition: Personas

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Donny, 38The local comedianLocation: East VillageAttitude: Laidback, loosely organizedFinancial Perspective: Frugal, paycheck to paycheckOnline Habits: Spends time networking, promoting

his act online, haunts comedy sitesEvents: Comedy slams, variety showsQuote: “I land a few comedy gigs around the

city and I want to promote them better.” Small Budget

Big Budget

PlannedPromoter

Definition: Personas

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Jenny, 33The professional promoterLocation: WilliamsburgAttitude: Busy, disciplined, professionalFinancial Perspective: Healthy budget for promotions andadvertisingOnline Habits: Heavy use of social networking sites

both professionally and personally, shops online

Events: Small gigs, big concerts, DJ setsQuote:“I manage a few bands and DJs and I

have to ensure they’re listed in the right, targeted places.” Small Budget

Big Budget

PlannedPromoter

Definition: Personas

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Class Exercise: Personas

Definition: Personas

•What tasks might each persona attempt to complete on Events.com? •What features can you imagine each persona might like on such a site?•What obstacles or pain points might they encounter?

SabrinaJenny DonnyJerry

Self Study”Personas and the Role of Design Documentation" by Andrew Hinton, Boxes and Arrows, 2008/02/27

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Lunch Break

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Afternoon

• Card Sorting• Site Maps• Page Types• Navigation• Sketching• Wireframes• Q&A

Agenda

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Card Sorting

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“There are often better ways to organize data than the traditional ones that first occur to us. Each organization of the same set of data expresses different attributes and messages. It is also important to experiment, reflect, and choose which organization best communicates our messages.” – Nathan Shedroff, Experience

Strategist

Definition: Card Sorting

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Methodology• Grouping and labeling with index cards, post it notes• Two types:

Open – Participants sort cards with no pre-established categories. Useful for new architecturesClosed – Participants sort cards into predetermined, provided groups. Useful for fitting content into existing architectures

• Online card sorts–WebSort, OptimalSort, Socratic

Goals• Organize content more efficiently• Find names for categories based on users’ perspectives

Self Study"Card sorting: a definitive guide" by Donna Spencer and Todd Warfel, Boxes and Arrows, 2004/04/07

Definition: Card Sorting

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Case Studies:

• Wachovia Wealth Management Group• American Red Cross• Mercedes Benz

Definition: Card Sorting

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Class Exercise:

As individuals:

• Take 5 minutes to think of all the events a person could attend•Write each event you come up with on a Post-It note

Definition: Card Sorting

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Class Exercise:

Now, as a group:

• Take a few minutes to organize your events into categories (group & label them)• Then we’ll share some categories

Definition: Card Sorting

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Characteristics & Findings:• Looking for redundancies • Lumping and splitting•Outliers and miscellaneous items• Placing items in multiple categories• Categories versus filters–E.g. Free, Family, Outdoors

• Unique but intuitive labels–E.g. Geeks, Relax

Definition: Card Sorting

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Next Steps:

With the results of a card sort we then can:

• Build consensus• Refine terminology• Create a site map•Help define navigation

Definition: Card Sorting

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Post-It PlusThis new app from 3M allows you to scan your Post-It Notes, organize and share them.

Definition: Card Sort Tools

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Design

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Site Maps

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Conceptual DesignDesign: Site Maps

“A site map is a high level diagram showing the hierarchy of a system. Site maps reflect the information structure, but are not necessarily indicative of the navigation structure.”– Step Two Designs

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Conceptual DesignDesign: Site Maps

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Conceptual DesignDesign: Site Maps

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Conceptual DesignDesign: Site Maps

Site Map Tools:

• Omnigraffle (Mac)•Microsoft Visio• InDesign

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Page Types & Templates

The Mercator Atlas of EuropeFrom The British Library

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Home Page Category Page Details Page

Examples:

Design: Page Types & Templates

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Navigation

Navigation Bridge, USS Enterprise by Serendigity, Flickr

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Types of Navigation• Site Structure – major nav• Hierarchical – product families• Function – sitemap privacy• Direct – banner ad/shortcut• Reference – related links• Dynamic – search results• Faceted Navigation – filters results• Breadcrumb – location • Step Navigation – sequence through forms/results

Self StudyAdapted from Atsushi Hasegagwa’s The 7 Navigation Types of Web Sites

Design: Navigation

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Areas of Navigation• Global – universal

header/footer• Local – left nav/right nav• Local content – text links,

buttons

Self StudyAdapted from Atsushi Hasegagwa’s The 7 Navigation Types of Web Sites

Design: Navigation

Styles of Navigation• Rollover• Dropdown• Flyout• Tabs• Accordion• Hamburger

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Mega Dropdowns

Design: Navigation

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Power Footers

Design: Navigation

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Sketching

Aerial Screw by Leonardo da Vinci, 1485-1487

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Can you guess what this is a sketch of?

Design: Sketching

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“twttr sketch” Twitter.com

Twitter[This sketch] has very special significance – it's hanging in the office somewhere with one other page. Whenever I'm thinking about something, I really like to take out the yellow notepad and get it down. – Jack Dorsey, Twitter

Design: Sketching

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“There are techniques and processes whereby we can put experience front and center in design. My belief is that the basis for doing so lies in extending the traditional practice of sketching. ”- Bill Buxton

Design: Sketching

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Attributes of a Sketch•Quick•Timely• Inexpensive•Disposable•Plentiful•Clear vocabulary•Distinct gesture•Minimal detail•Appropriate degree of refinement•Suggest & explore rather than confirm•Ambiguity

Design: Sketching

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Goals for Collaborative Sketching

• To communicate your ideas effectively by visualizing them

• To benefit from the participation of your colleagues

• To quickly generate ideas and refine through iterations

Design: Sketching

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Process

1. Discuss2. Sketch3. Share4. Iterate

Design: Sketching

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• Discuss the purpose of the specific experience you’re sketching• What does it need to accomplish?• What features are necessary?• How would you prioritize them?• Who’s the audience?

• You’re not discussing layout or design• Just the problem you’re trying to solve• You’re not sketching yet

Design: Sketching

Discuss

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Design: Sketching

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Sketch

• Sketch silently• Limit your time – 5,10 minutes• Sketch as much as possible, as many

different ideas as possible• Don’t worry about mistakes or style• Emphasis is on the quantity of ideas, not

the quality of the sketches

Design: Sketching

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Design: Sketching

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Share

• Review your work with your team• Keep it short – 60 seconds each • You offer your feedback to others• What you like • Questions about what didn’t work for

you• You’re not grilling your colleagues and

this isn’t a competition

Design: Sketching

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Iterate

• Now sketch again if you need to • Or collaborate on a high-level wireframe

(e.g. via whiteboard)• Then begin your wireframe with a more

informed view, with more and better ideas• Iterate on your design

Design: Sketching

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Class Exercise: Collaborative SketchingIn teams, sketch your ideas.

Event Detail Page1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what

features belong here

Design: Sketching

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Class Exercise: Collaborative SketchingIn teams, sketch your ideas.

Event Detail Page1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what

features belong here2. Time for silent sketching

Design: Sketching

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Class Exercise: Collaborative SketchingIn teams, sketch your ideas.

Event Detail Page1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what

features belong here2. Time for silent sketching3. Time for sharing your sketches

Design: Sketching

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Class Exercise: Collaborative Sketching

Did you come up with any differentiating ideas for an event page?

Design: Sketching

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Sketching Tools:The following apps are all for the iPad:

• Adobe Ideas (Free)• Bamboo Paper (Free)• Muji Notebook ($3.99)• Penultimate (Free)• SketchBook (Free)• Paper (Free)• Adonit Forge (Free)

Design: Sketching

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Wireframes

photo & sculpture by polly verity

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Wireframes

“Web site wireframes are blue prints that define a Web page’s content and functionality. They do not convey design – e.g. colors, graphics, or fonts.”- FatPurple

Design: Wireframes

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Wireframing/Prototyping Tools:

• Adobe InDesign• Axure• Omnigraffle (Mac)• Microsoft Visio• Sketch/Invision• Mockingbird (online, free)

Also:• Balsamiq• iPlotz• iMockups (iPad)• Omnigraffle (iPad)

Self StudySmashing Magazine: 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

Design: Wireframes

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Responsive Design

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Responsive Web Design“Rather than tailoring disconnected designs to each of an ever-increasing number of web devices, we can treat them as facets of the same experience. We can design for an optimal viewing experience, but embed standards-based technologies into our designs to make them not only more flexible, but more adaptive to the media that renders them. In short, we need to practice responsive web design.” – Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, A List Apart

Self StudyEthan Marcotte: Responsive Web Design

Design: Responsive Design

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Design: Responsive Design

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Design: Responsive Design

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Desktop Tablet Mobile

Design: Responsive Design

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Design: Responsive Design

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Responsive Design Characteristics• Think “mobile first”• The goal: Maintain content and features across devices• Responsive designs adjust at different “break points”

corresponding to the dimensions of various devices, typically desktop, tablet and mobile

• Navigation may be repositioned• Modules may be repositioned but hierarchies are maintained• Images scale down in size or may be cropped• Text size is maintained where possible, though headings may

be reduced in size• Filters may be moved into a dropdown• Occasionally, content or features are dropped to save screen

real estate or if they’re not device appropriate

Design: Responsive Design

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Design: Sketching

Design a Responsive Home PageIn your teams, create your final deliverable, a responsive home page for Events.com

1) Discuss features needed for a homepage2) Sketch your ideas for a homepage

individually3) Discuss your sketches again with your team

Design: Final Exercise

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Design: Final Exercise

Final Home Page CollaborationIn your teams, create your final deliverable, a responsive home page for Events.com

1) Collaborate as a team on a final responsive version of the home page

2) Include a high-level sketch of how the mobile version would display

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Development

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Additional Resources

Books:• Information Architecture for the World Wide

Web – Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville• Information Architecture: Blueprints for the

Web – Christina Wodtke, Austin Govella• The Elements of User Experience – Jesse

James Garrett• Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the

User Experience – James Kalbach, Aaron Gustafson

• Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman• Responsive Web Design – Ethan Marcotte

Local Events:• Brooklyn UX• Content Strategy NYC Meetup

Web Sites:• Alertbox• A List Apart• Boxes & Arrows• wireframes.tumblr.com

Organizations:• Human Computer Interactions (HCI)• Interaction Designers Association (IxDA)• Usability Professionals Association (UPA)

Further Studies:• School of Visual Arts• Continuing Ed classes• MFA in Interaction Design

• Pratt – Course in Information Design• Rosenfeld Media• General Assembly• Skillshare• Adaptive Path• The Information Architecture Institute• The IA Summit • Nielsen Norman Group• User Interface Engineering

Video: The Right Way to Wireframe by Russ Unger (YouTube)

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Q&A

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Slideshare address:http://www.slideshare.net/stribs

My article on how to find an IA job:http://blog.onwardsearch.com/2012/08/information-architecture-a-guerilla-guide-to-breaking-in/

@stribs