Information Technology Systems & Services
Information Architecture
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Overviews
- Defining Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- Defining the damn thing - interactionbydesign.com.
- Information Architecture - Valentin
- Information Architecture Defined - Christina Wodtke
- Information architecture models - Ben Hunt
- The Definition of Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- What Is Information Architecture? - Iain Barker
- Web Site Architecture 101 - Rudy Limebac
Methods
Affinity Diagrams
- Affinity Diagrams by James Hom
- What is Affinity Diagramming? - Gerry Gaffney
- Affinity diagramming - UsabilityNet
- The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities - Jared M. Spool
Card Sorting
- Analyzing Card Sort Results with a Spreadsheet Template - Joe Lamantia
- Card Sort Analysis Spreadsheet - Donna Maurer
- Card Sorting: A Definitive Guide - Donna Maurer and Todd Warfell
- Card Sorting by Joshua Kaufman
- Card Sorting by UsabilityNet
- Card-Sorting Exercise: Instructions: Part 1
- Card Sorting For Intranet Information Architecture - Nick Besseling
-
Card Sorting: How Many
Users to Test - Jakob Nielsen
- Nielsen on card sorting - Donna Maurer
- Card Sorting: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned - Sam Ng
-
Card
Sorting - Part 1 - Mark Boulton
- Card Sorting - Part 2 - Mark Boulton
- Card Sorting - Part 3 - Mark Boulton
- Card Sorting to Discover the Users' Model of the Information Space - Jakob Nielsen
-
Card Sorting
Tools - A Short Summary - Donna Maurer
- Card Sorting Tools - Final Summary - Donna Maurer
- Cluster Analysis for Web Site Organization - Shirley Martin
- Don't Get Out of Sorts! - Peter Merholz
- Extending Card-Sorting Techniques to Inform the Design of Web Site Hierarchies - Michael Hawley
- How to do a simple card sort
- Information Architecture: Using Card Sorting for Web Cassification Design - Gerry McGovern
- Information Design Using Card Sorting
- Information Design Using Card Sorting by James Robertson
- Open Source Usability, and the Modified Delphi Card Sorting Method - an Interview with Celeste Lyn Paul - Gerry Gaffney
- Put the 'Card' Back into Card Sorting: Computer-aided paper sorting (Caps) - William Hudson
- uzilla: cardsort - mozdev.org
- What is Card Sorting? - Gerry Gaffney
Content Inventory
- Doing a Content Inventory (Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site) - JeffreyVeen
- Preparing and Planning an Audit - Sue Henczel
- Taking a Content Inventory - Donna Maurer
- Taking A Content Inventory - Janice Crotty Fraser
- Why You Shouldn't Start IA with a Content Inventory by Donna Maurer
Prototyping
- A Forgotten Prototype Technique: Comics - Jared Spool
- Balancing Fidelity in Prototyping - Henrik Olsen
- Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping - Laura S. Quinn
- Don't Make the Demo Look Done - Kathy Sierra
- Five Paper Prototyping Tips - Matthew Klee
- Getting Involvement With Prototype Interfaces - Donna Maurer
- GoLive - the interaction designer's hammer and nail: Prototyping with Adobe GoLive - Henrik Olsen
- Hand-Crafting Prototypes in Visio - Henrik Olsen
- High Fidelity or Low Fidelity, Paper or Computer? Choosing Attributes When Testing Web Prototypes - Miriam Walker, Leila Takayama, and James A. Landay
- How Good Does Your Web Site Look on Paper? - Troy Janisch
- Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design - James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers
- Interface in Form: Paper and Product Prototyping for Feedback and Fun - Bruce Hanington
- Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development - Garrett Dimon
- Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup - Luke Wroblewski
- Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping - Jared Spool
- Paper Prototypes - Jensen Harris
- Paper Prototyping - Shawn Medero
- Paper Prototyping by UsabilityNet
- Paper Prototyping: First Experiences and Lessons Learned - Guy Sangwine
- Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code - Jakob Nielsen
- Paper Prototyping with Morae - David Travis
- Paper Prototyping Video - Joe Arnold
- Prototyping 2 separate studies
- Prototyping Beyond the Sunshine Scenario: How to prototype derivations from the main flow - Henrik Olsen
- Prototyping by James Hom
- Prototyping With PowerPoint - Jensen Harris
- Prototyping With Style - Jeff Lash
- Prototyping with XHTML - Anders Ramsay and Leah Buley
- Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop - Casper Voogt
- Rapid Abstract Prototyping - Larry L. Constantine
- Rapid Prototyping
- Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping - David Verba
- The Art of UI Prototyping- Scott Berkun
- The Dark Side of Prototyping - Henrik Olsen.
- The Promised Land of Prototyping - Henrik Olsen
- Testing Paper Mock-Up of Homepage - Jakob Nielsen
- Testing with a Paper Prototype
- Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability - Dey Alexander
- Using Paper Prototypes to Manage Risk
- Using Prototypes - Gerd Waloszek and Joelle Carignan
- Visio - The Interaction Designer's Nail Gun (3rd edition) - Henrik Olsen
Wireframes
- Design Before You Build with Wire Frames - Tony Patton
- Documenting Interaction Design: Wire Frames with Visio and Word - interakt.nu
- How do we do HTML wireframes? - Gene Smith
- HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain - Julie Stanford
- How to Get Clients to Look at Wireframes...Properly - Caroline Jarrett
- Know Your Place - Nathan Curtis
- Make an HTML Wireframe - Dustin Diaz
- More on Wireframes - Chris Baker
- Page Description Diagrams - D. Keith Robinson
- Practical Applications: Visio or HTML for Wireframes - Jeff Gothelf
- Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space - Jason Withrow
- The Devil's in the Wireframes - Liz Danzico
- The Fine Art of Wireframes - T. Scott Stromberg
- The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications - Andres Zapata
- Real Wireframes Get Real Results - Stephen Turbek
- Redesign Phase 2 - Information Architecture - Garrett Dimon
- Recyclable Information Architecture - Nick Finck
- Using Wireframes - strangesystems.net
- (Wire)frame yourself
- Wire Frame Your Site - Matt Beach
- Wireframe Annotations in Visio : Special Deliverable #11 - Dan Brown
- Wireframes - Chris Baker
- Wireframes: Struggles and Solutions, Part 1 - Sarah Harrison
- Wireframes: Unpacking the Boxes - Ian Curry
- Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World - Richard Rutter
- Wireframing the Content - Kevin Leitch
- Wireframing With InDesign and Illustrator - Todd Warfe
- Wireframing With Patterns - Lindsay Ellerbyns
- Wireframeworks Manifesto - Hammad Khan New!
Comprehensive Sites
- Boxes and Arrows
- Croc O' Lyle - Lyle Kantrovich
- Elegant Hack - Christina Wodtke
- Findability.org - Peter Morville
- IA at Digital Web Magazine - digital-web.com
- iaslash - Michael Angeles
- Information Architecture Resources - Jesse James Garrett
- The Information Architecture Institute
- peterme - Peter Merholz
- Visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design - Jesse James Garrett
Articles & Related Links
- 6 Ways to Fix a Confused Information Architecture - Jakob Nielsen
- 2001 to 2006: Five Years of Information Architecture - Karen Loasby
- A Research Agenda for Information Architecture - Peter Van Dijck
- A User-Centered Approach to Selling Information Architecture - Jeff Lash
- An Activity-Theory-Based Model To Analyze Web Application Requirements - Lorna Uden et al
- An Introduction to User Journeys - Jason Hobbs
- An update on breadth vs. depth - Kath Straub and Susan Weinschenk
- Better Content Management Through Information Architecture - Masood Nasser
- Being Shallow - Grant Campbell
- Broken links and poor information architecture design - Gerry McGovern
- Building Block Definitions (Containers) - Joe Lamantia
- Change Architecture: Bringing IA to the Business Domain - Bob Goodman
- Chapter 2: First Principles Some rules of thumb, and some thumbing of rules - Christina Wodtke
- Coming to Terms - George Olsen
- Critical Architectural Junctures - Louis Rosenfeld
- Defining Information Architecture Deliverables - Christina Wodke
- Demystifying Information Architecture - Patrick Kennedy
- Depth vs Breadth in the Arrangement of Web Links - Panayiotis Zaphiris and Lianaeli Mtei
- Designing Information Architecture - Rashi Sinha
- Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best Practices - Amber Swope
- Don't
Finalize the Site Structure Until You've Created Page Layouts - Iain Barker
- Should You Finalize Site Structure Based on Card-Sorting? - Rashmi Sinha
- Enterprise IA As Intellectual Property - Lou Rosenfeld
- Enterprise IA Methodologies - James Robertson
- Enterprise IA Roadmap - Louis Rosenfeld
-
Enterprise IA
summary - Gene Smith
- Enterprise IA summary - Gene Smith
- Enterprise Information Architecture: A Semantic and Organizational Foundation - Tom Reamy
- Essay on the state of information architecture - Jesse James Garrett
- Ethics of Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- Evaluating Information Architecture - Steve Toub
- Faceted Feature Analysis - Adam Polansky
- Four Essential Skills for Information Architects: An Interview with Donna (Maurer) Spencer - Jared M. Spool
- Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Donna Maurer
- Front-End Architecture: Markup is the Technical Foundation - Garrett Dimon
-
Getting
IA Done: Part I - Joshua Kaufman
- Getting IA Done, Part II - Joshua Kaufman
- Good Information Architecture Increases Online Sales - Ivan Walsh
- Human-to-Human Design - Sharon Lee
- IA is Not Just About Navigation - Patrick Kennedy
- IA One Sheeters - Leah Buley
- IA Summit 2008 Slides - NLC Internet Marketing Blog
- IA Summit Sessions
- IA Trends Survey Results and Analysis - Louis Rosenfeld
- Information Architecture - R. E. Wyllys
- Information Architecture and Findability - Russell Wilson
- Information Architecture and Personalization: White Paper- Keith Instone
- Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design - Joshua Kaufman
- Information Architecture Books
- Information Architecture: Carrying out a Classification Situation Analysis - Gerry McGovern
- Information Architecture Exercises - Peter Van Dijck
- Information Architecture for Everyone - D. Keith Robinson
- Information Architecture Glossary - Kat Hagedorn
- Information Architecture Is Not Dead...But It Might Be Stuck - Scott Weisbrod
- Information Architecture Library - Information Architecture Institute
- Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise Web - Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld
- Information Architecture, Shaping Knowledge into Form - The Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT
- Information Architecture Success Story: the Development of www.plainlanguage.gov - Thom Haller
- Information Architecture Syllabus - Peter Morville
- Information Architecture of the Shopping Cart - Sarah Bidigare
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (chapter 2) - Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville
- Information Architecture Research Agenda - Keith Instone
- Information Achitecture Versus Graphic Design - Gerry McGovern
- Information Architecture: Webpage Mental Maps Emerge - Gerry McGovern
- Information Architecture: Learning How To Classify - Gerry McGovern
- Information Design = Complexity + Interdisciplinary + Experiment - Gerlinde Schuller
- Information Design for the Web - Colin Lieberman
- Information Design of the New Web - Melissa Kris
- Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Jens Jacobsen
- Information Scent: Helping People Find the Content They Want - Iain Barker
- Intranet Information Architecture (IA) - Jakob Nielsen
- Introduction to Information Architecture - Austin Govella
- Is there an Architect in the House? - Adam Kallis
- J R R Tolkien Was an Information Architect - Gerry McGovern
- Labels - Links
- Little Blue Folders - Peter Morville
- Make Tools - Victor Lombardi
- Navigation References
- Patterns
- Origin of the Phrase 'Information Architecture' - R.E. Wyllys
- Questions Information Architects Ask - Louis Rosenfeld
- Rosenfeld Explains Enterprise Information Architecture - Ann Light
- Selecting IA Components - Lou Rosenfeld
- Soft Skills for Information Architecture - Jeff Lash
- Software for Information Architects - Peter Morville
- Task Oriented Information Architecture - Michael Andrews
- The Age of Information Architecture - Jeff Lash
- The Confluence of Research and Practice in Information Architecture - Karl Fast
- The Holy Grail of Information Architecture - Christopher Fahey
- The IA of Things: Twenty Years of Lessons Learned - James Leftwich
- The Information Architect: A Missing Link? - Ricardo Baea-Yates and Miguel Nussbaum
- The Information Architect as Change Agent - Matthew C. Clarke
- The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- The Economics of Classification - Gerry McGovern
- The Many Faces of Information Architecture - Patrick Kennedy
- The Myth of User-Centered Information Architecture - Jeff Lash
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The No-Knead Approach to Information Architecture, 1 of 5 - Louis Rosenfeld
- The No-Knead Approach to Information Architecture, 2 of 5 - Louis Rosenfeld
- The No-Knead Approach to Information Architecture, 3 of 5 - Lou Rosenfeld
- The No-Knead Approach to Information Architecture, 4 of 5 - Lou Rosenfeld
- The Speed of Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- The Tail Wags the Dog - Lou Rosenfeld
- The Real Information Architect - Peter Morville New!
- Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture - Joshua Porter
- Today's IA tip for Beginners - Peter Van Dijck
- Underused IA Tools - Peter Van Dijck
- We Tried To Warn You: The Organizational Architecture of Failure - Peter Jones.
- Whole Lotta IA Survey Results Now Available - Louis Rosenfeld
- Yet More Thoughts on Global Information Architecture - Louis Rosenfeld
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