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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web; Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
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 informat...
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- Foreword1
- Preface2
- PART I
- I.Introducing Information Architecture
- Chapter 1
- CHAPTER 1
- Defining Information Architecture1
- Tablets, Scrolls, Books, and Libraries
- Explaining IA to Others
- What Isn’t Information Architecture?
- Why Information Architecture Matters
- Bringing Our Work to Life
- Practicing Information Architecture2
- Do We Need Information Architects?
- Who’s Qualified to Practice Information Architecture?
- Information Architecture Specialists
- Practicing Information Architecture in the Real World
- What Lies Ahead
- User Needs and Behaviors 3
- The “Too-Simple” Information Model
- Information Needs
- The perfect catch
- Indiscriminate driftnetting
- I’ve seen you before, Moby Dick
- Information-Seeking Behaviors
- Learning About Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors
- PART II
- II.Basic Principles of Information Architecture
- The Anatomy of an Information Architecture4
- Visualizing Information Architecture
- Information Architecture Components
- Chapter 5
- CHAPTER 5
- Organization Systems5
- Challenges of Organizing Information
- Internal Politics
- Organizing Web Sites and Intranets
- Organization Schemes
- Exact Organization Schemes
- Organization Structures
- Creating Cohesive Organization Systems
- Chapter 6
- CHAPTER 6
- Labeling Systems 6
- Why You Should Care About Labeling
- Varieties of Labels
- Labels Within Navigation Systems
- Designing Labels
- General Guidelines
- Comparable and competitive sites
- Controlled vocabularies and thesauri
- Chapter 7
- CHAPTER 7
- Navigation Systems7
- Types of Navigation Systems
- Gray Matters
- Browser Navigation Features
- Building Context
- Improving Flexibility
- Embedded Navigation Systems
- Local Navigation Systems
- Contextual Navigation
- Supplemental Navigation Systems
- Advanced Navigation Approaches
- Personalization and Customization
- Chapter 8
- CHAPTER 8
- Search Systems8
- Does Your Site Need Search?
- Search System Anatomy
- Search Is Not an IT Thing
- Choosing What to Search
- Search Algorithms
- Pattern-Matching Algorithms
- Query Builders
- Natural language processing tools
- Presenting Results
- Designing the Search Interface
- Where to Learn More
- Chapter 9
- CHAPTER 9
- Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata9
- Metadata
- Controlled Vocabularies
- Technical Lingo
- A Thesaurus in Action
- Types of Thesauri
- Thesaurus Standards
- Semantic Relationships
- Preferred Terms
- Polyhierarchy
- PART III
- III.Process and Methodology
- Chapter 10
- CHAPTER 10
- Research10
- Process Overview
- A Research Framework
- Context
- Introductory Presentations
- Information technology meeting
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Content
- Descriptive metadata
- Administrative metadata
- Competitive benchmarking
- Before-and-after benchmarking
- Users
- Customer-Support Data
- Participant Definition and Recruiting
- User Research Sessions
- In Defense of Research
- Chapter 11
- CHAPTER 11
- Strategy 11
- What Is an Information Architecture Strategy?
- Strategies Under Attack
- From Research to Strategy
- Developing the Strategy
- Work Products and Deliverables
- Metaphor Exploration
- Organizational metaphors
- Functional metaphors
- Case Studies and Stories
- Blueprints and Wireframes
- The Strategy Report
- The Project Plan
- Presentations
- Active Inter-Hub Management
- Chapter 12
- CHAPTER 12
- Design and Documentation12
- Guidelines for Diagramming an Information Architecture
- Communicating Visually
- Blueprints
- Wireframes
- Content Mapping and Inventory
- Content Models
- Design Collaboration
- Web-Based Prototypes
- Putting It All Together: Information Architecture Style Guides
- PART IV
- IV.Information Architecture inPractice
- Chapter 13
- CHAPTER 13
- Education13
- Transition in Education
- A World of Choice
- But Do I Need a Degree?
- The State of the Field
- Ethical Considerations
- Shaping the Future
- Chapter 15
- CHAPTER 15
- Building an Information Architecture Team15
- Destructive Acts of Creation
- Fast and Slow Layers
- Project Versus Program
- Buy or Rent
- Do We Really Need to Hire Professionals?
- The Dream Team
- Chapter 16
- CHAPTER 16
- Tools and Software 16
- A Time of Change
- Categories in Chaos
- Questions to Ask
- PART V
- V.Information Architecture inthe Organization
- Making the Case for Information Architecture17
- You Must Sell
- • The ROI case for information architecture
- The Two Kinds of People in the World
- Running the Numbers
- Talking to the Reactionaries
- Other Case-Making Techniques
- Competitive analyses
- Comparative analyses
- The Information Architecture Value Checklist
- A Final Note
- Chapter 18
- CHAPTER 18
- Business Strategy 18
- The Origins of Strategy
- Defining Business Strategy
- Strategic Fit
- Exposing Gaps in Business Strategy
- One Best Way
- Many Good Ways
- Understanding Our Elephant
- Competitive Advantage
- The End of the Beginning
- Chapter 19
- CHAPTER 19
- Information Architecture for the Enterprise 19
- Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise
- What’s the Goal of EIA?
- Designing an Enterprise Information Architecture
- Build single-silo content models
- “Telescoped” metadata development
- EIA Strategy and Operations
- Doing the Work and Paying the Bills
- Timing Is Everything: A Phased Rollout
- A Framework for Moving Forward
- PART VI
- VI.Case Studies
- MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet20
- Challenges for the User
- Challenges for the Information Architect
- We Like Taxonomies, Whatever They Are
- What’s Next
- MSWeb’s Achievement
- Chapter 21
- CHAPTER 21
- evolt.org: An Online Community 21
- evolt.org in a Nutshell
- Architecting an Online Community
- The Participation Economy
- Discussion list postings
- How Information Architecture Fits In
- The “Un-Information Architecture”
- APPENDIX
- Essential Resources22
- AIGA–Experience Design
- The Information Architecture Library
- Online Journals and Magazines
- IA Institute Education
- IxDA Education Resources
- Human Factors International
- IAwiki Degree in IA Page
- U.S. News and World Report
- University of Texas on Information Architecture
- Conferences and Events
- IAwiki Deliverables and Artifacts
- IAwiki Diagramming Tools
- IxDA Resource Library
- jjg.net’s Visual Vocabulary
- Index
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