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Information architecture for the World Wide Web / Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville.
LIBRA TK5105.888 .R67 2007
Available from offsite location
LIBRA TK5105.888 .R67 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenfeld, Louis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Web sites--Design.
- Web sites.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 504 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham : O'Reilly, [2007]
- Summary:
- The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale web sites that are manageable, appealing, and easy to navigate.
- This new edition of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web is thoroughly updated to address emerging technologies-with recent examples, new scenarios, and information on best practices-yet it maintains its focus on fundamentals. Topics range from aesthetics to mechanics and include: An overview of information architecture for both newcomers and experienced practitioners. The fundamental components of an architecture, demonstrating the interconnected nature of these systems, with updates for tagging, folksonomies, social classification, and guided navigation. Tools, techniques, and methods that take you from research to strategy and design to implementation. This edition discusses blueprints, wireframes, and the role of diagrams in the design phase. A series of short essays that provide practical tips and philosophical advice for those who work on information architecture. The business of practicing and promoting information architecture, including recent lessons on how to handle enterprise architecture. Case studies on the evolution of two large and very different information architectures, illustrating best practices along the way. With an emphasis on goals and approaches over tactics or technologies, this enormously popular book gives you knowledge about information architecture with a framework that allows you to learn new approaches-and unlearn outmoded ones.
- Contents:
- Part I Introducing Information Architecture
- 1 Defining Information Architecture 3
- Tablets, Scrolls, Books, and Libraries 6
- Explaining IA to Others 8
- What Isn't Information Architecture? 9
- Why Information Architecture Matters 11
- Bringing Our Work to Life 12
- 2 Practicing Information Architecture 16
- Do We Need Information Architects? 17
- Who's Qualified to Practice Information Architecture? 18
- Information Architecture Specialists 23
- Practicing Information Architecture in the Real World 24
- What Lies Ahead 28
- 3 User Needs and Behaviors 30
- The "Too-Simple" Information Model 31
- Information Needs 33
- Information-Seeking Behaviors 35
- Learning About Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors 38
- Part II Basic Principles of Information Architecture
- 4 The Anatomy of an Information Architecture 41
- Visualizing Information Architecture 41
- Information Architecture Components 49
- 5 Organization Systems 53
- Challenges of Organizing Information 54
- Organizing Web Sites and Intranets 58
- Organization Schemes 59
- Organization Structures 69
- Social Classification 77
- Creating Cohesive Organization Systems 80
- 6 Labeling Systems 82
- Why You Should Care About Labeling 83
- Varieties of Labels 86
- Designing Labels 98
- 7 Navigation Systems 115
- Types of Navigation Systems 116
- Gray Matters 117
- Browser Navigation Features 117
- Building Context 118
- Improving Flexibility 120
- Embedded Navigation Systems 122
- Supplemental Navigation Systems 131
- Advanced Navigation Approaches 139
- 8 Search Systems 145
- Does Your Site Need Search? 145
- Search System Anatomy 149
- Search Is Not an IT Thing 150
- Choosing What to Search 151
- Search Algorithms 158
- Query Builders 161
- Presenting Results 163
- Designing the Search Interface 178
- 9 Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata 193
- Metadata 194
- Controlled Vocabularies 194
- Technical Lingo 204
- A Thesaurus in Action 206
- Types of Thesauri 209
- Thesaurus Standards 213
- Semantic Relationships 215
- Preferred Terms 217
- Polyhierarchy 219
- Faceted Classification 221
- Part III Process and Methodology
- 10 Research 231
- Process Overview 232
- A Research Framework 233
- Users 246
- Participant Definition and Recruiting 251
- User Research Sessions 254
- In Defense of Research 261
- 11 Strategy 264
- What Is an Information Architecture Strategy? 265
- Strategies Under Attack 266
- From Research to Strategy 268
- Developing the Strategy 269
- Work Products and Deliverables 273
- The Strategy Report 279
- The Project Plan 288
- Presentations 288
- 12 Design and Documentation 291
- Guidelines for Diagramming an Information Architecture 292
- Communicating Visually 294
- Blueprints 296
- Wireframes 307
- Content Mapping and Inventory 313
- Content Models 317
- Controlled Vocabularies 324
- Design Collaboration 326
- Putting It All Together: Information Architecture Style Guides 329
- Part IV Information Architecture in Practice
- 13 Education 335
- Transition in Education 336
- A World of Choice 336
- But Do I Need a Degree? 337
- The State of the Field 338
- 14 Ethics 340
- Ethical Considerations 341
- Shaping the Future 344
- 15 Building an Information Architecture Team 345
- Destructive Acts of Creation 346
- Fast and Slow Layers 347
- Project Versus Program 348
- Buy or Rent 349
- Do We Really Need to Hire Professionals? 350
- The Dream Team 352
- 16 Tools and Software 354
- A Time of Change 354
- Categories in Chaos 355
- Questions to Ask 361
- Part V Information Architecture in the Organization
- 17 Making the Case for Information Architecture 365
- You Must Sell 365
- The Two Kinds of People in the World 366
- Running the Numbers 367
- Talking to the Reactionaries 371
- Other Case-Making Techniques 373
- The Information Architecture Value Checklist 376
- 18 Business Strategy 378
- The Origins of Strategy 379
- Defining Business Strategy 380
- Strategic Fit 382
- Exposing Gaps in Business Strategy 384
- One Best Way 385
- Many Good Ways 385
- Understanding Our Elephant 387
- Competitive Advantage 389
- The End of the Beginning 390
- 19 Information Architecture for the Enterprise 392
- Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise 392
- What's the Goal of EIA? 394
- Designing an Enterprise Information Architecture 397
- EIA Strategy and Operations 411
- Doing the Work and Paying the Bills 416
- Timing Is Everything: A Phased Rollout 421
- A Framework for Moving Forward 426
- 20 MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet 429
- Challenges for the User 430
- Challenges for the Information Architect 431
- We Like Taxonomies, Whatever They Are 432
- Benefits to Users 454
- MSWeb's Achievement 459
- 21 evolt.org: An Online Community 460
- evolt.org in a Nutshell 461
- Architecting an Online Community 461
- The Participation Economy 462
- How Information Architecture Fits In 471
- The "Un-Information Architecture" 474
- Appendix Essential Resources 475.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0596527349
- 9780596527341
- OCLC:
- 78782963
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