Information Architecture
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Overviews
- Defining Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- The Definition of Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- What Is Information Architecture? - Iain Barker
- What is Information Architecture? - Mickey McManus
Methods
Affinity Diagrams
- Affinity Diagramming - UsabilityNet
- The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities - Jared M. Spool
Card Sorting
- 7 Frequently Asked Questions on Card Sorting - Donna Spencer
- 10 Things to Know About Card Sorting
- A Modified Delphi Approach to a New Card Sorting Methodology - Celeste Lyn Paul
- Can Card Sorting Improve the Usability of Your Designs? - Sergey Sinyakov New!
- Card Sorting + Tree Testing : The Science of Great Site Navigation - Jeff Sauro.
- Card Sorting - William Hudson
- Card Sort Analysis Spreadsheet - Donna Maurer
- Card Sorting by Joshua Kaufman
- Card Sorting by usability.gov
- Card Sorting: Current Practices and Beyond - Jed Wood and Larry Wood
- Card Sorting - Downloads - Syntagm
- Card-Sorting Exercise: Instructions: Part 1
- Card Sorting For Intranet Information Architecture - Nick Besseling
- Card Sorting by Holger Maassen
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Sorting: How Many Users to Test - Jakob Nielsen
- Nielsen on Card Sorting - Donna Maurer
- Card Sorting - Online Versus Offline - Alex Manchester
- Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches - Jakob Nielsen
- Card Sorting to Discover the Users' Model of the Information Space - Jakob Nielsen
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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
- For Cardsorting, 20 is Enough - Kath Straub
- How to do a simple card sort
- Information Design Using Card Sorting by James Robertson
- Online Card Sorting - Even Better Than the Real Thing? - Neil Turner
- Open Source Usability, and the Modified Delphi Card Sorting Method - an Interview with Celeste Lyn Paul - Gerry Gaffney
- The Usability of Computerized Card Sorting: A Comparison of Three Applications by Researchers and End Users - Barbara Chaparro, Veronica Hinkle, and Shannon Riley
- Usability Methods: For Cardsorting, 20 is Enough - Kath Straub
- Using Card Sorting To Test Information Architecture - Jeff Sauro
- Usability Testing With Card Sorting - Kayla Knight
- UX Card Sort - George Miles
- uzilla: cardsort - mozdev.org
Content Inventory
- Doing a Content Inventory (Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site) - JeffreyVeen
- How to Visualize Your Site as a Treemap - Todd Moy
- Taking a Content Inventory - Donna Maurer
- The User We've Left Out - The Content Governor - Jared Spool
- What Should You Know About Content Before You Design? - Steven Bradley
- Why You Shouldn't Start IA with a Content Inventory by Donna Maurer
Prototyping
- 7 Myths About Paper Prototyping - David Travis.
- A Forgotten Prototype Technique: Comics - Jared Spool
- Building Prototypes in HTML and CSS - Anna Debenham
- Don't Make the Demo Look Done - Kathy Sierra
- Five Paper Prototyping Tips - Matthew Klee
- Five Prevalent Pitfalls When Prototyping - Jared Spool
- Getting Involvement With Prototype Interfaces - Donna Maurer
- How Good Does Your Web Site Look on Paper? - Troy Janisch
- Industry Trends in Prototyping - Dave Cronin
- Interface in Form: Paper and Product Prototyping for Feedback and Fun - Bruce Hanington
- Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development - Garrett Dimon
- Kelly Goto - Prototyping for Mobile Designs - Sean Carmichael
- Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping - Jared Spool
- Make Your Mockup in Markup - Meagan Fisher
- Mobile Prototyping - A New Paradigm - Alexis Piperides
- Paper Prototyping - Shawn Medero
- Paper Prototyping As A Usability Testing Technique - Justin Mifsud
- Paper Prototyping: First Experiences and Lessons Learned - Guy Sangwine
- Paper Prototyping for Engineers - uxmatters.com reader
- Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code - Jakob Nielsen
- Paper Prototyping with Morae - David Travis
- Prototyping 2 separate studies
- Prototyping: Picking the Right Tool - Todd Zaki Warfel
- Prototyping Pro Tip - Practice With A New Tool By Redoing An Old Design - Jared Spool
- Prototyping With Style - Jeff Lash
- Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop - Casper Voogt
- Rapid Abstract Prototyping - Larry L. Constantine
- Rapid Prototyping with Sinatra - Al Shaw
- Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping - David Verba
- Speed Up CSS Prototyping - Thierry Koblentz
- Testing Paper Mock-Up of Homepage - Jakob Nielsen
- Testing with a Paper Prototype
- Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability - Dey Alexander
- Understanding How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results - Stanford HCI Group
- Using Paper Prototypes to Manage Risk
- Using Prototypes - Gerd Waloszek and Joelle Carignan
- Wireframes are Dead, Long Live Rapid Prototyping - Neil Turner
- Web Prototyping for Touch Gestures - Sanjay Raval
Wireframes
- Agile, OmniGraffle, and Native Mobile Wireframing - Simon Keatley
- Beyond Wireframing - The Real-Life UX Design Process - Marcin Treder
- Ditch Traditional Wireframes - Sergio Nouvel
- Documenting Interaction Design: Wire Frames with Visio and Word - interakt.nu
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From Wireframes to Code, Part I - Bill Schmidt
- From Wireframes to Code, Part II - Bill Schmidt
- Heretical Ideas - Stop Using Wireframes - Gary Barber
- Match the Tool to the Problem - Daniel Ritzenthaler
- More on Wireframes - Chris Baker
- The 7 Wonders of Wireframes - Paul Boag
- The Benefits of Wireframing a Design - Brad Shorr
- The Life Cycle of a Wireframe - Nick Finck
- Tools for Facilitating Feedback on Prototypes and Wireframes - David Leggett
- Responsive Layouts, Responsively Wireframed - James Mellers
- Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing - Cameron Chapman
- User Experience is More Than Wireframes and Prototypes - Gary Barber
- Wireframes - Chris Baker
- (Wire)frame yourself
- Wireframes - From Bar Napkins To Prototypes - Mike Hughes
- Wireframes Magazine - Jakub Linowski
- Wireframing for Responsive Design - Leigh Howells
- Wireframing is Not a Religion - Joshua Brewer
- Wireframing: Tips, Tools, and Techniques Part 1 - Neal McGann
- Where Wireframes Are Concerned - Andy Rutledge
- Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes - Zach Dunn
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
Mobile
- Agile, OmniGraffle, and Native Mobile Wireframing - Simon Keatley
- Designing for Mobile - Part 1: Information Architecture - Elaine McVicar
- Kelly Goto - Prototyping for Mobile Designs - Sean Carmichael
- Mobile Prototyping - A New Paradigm - Alexis Piperides
- Responsive Design With Paper - Alexander Baxevanis
- Responsive IA: IA in the Touchscreen Era - Martin Belam
- Responsive Layouts - How To Maintain Hierarchy Through Content Choreography - Steven Bradley
- Web Prototyping for Touch Gestures - Sanjay Raval
Articles & Related Links
- Semantic Environments and Information Architecture - Jorge Arango
- Web Accessibility for Information Architects - Part I - Glenda Sims
- Web Accessibility for Information Architects - Part 2 - Glenda Sims
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