Yippee-IA: All you need to know about Information Architecture in 5 minutes
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Presentation given at UXCampBrighton 2014. #uxcb2014. The 5 minute presentation on ways of organising things was followed with a card sort.
Transcript of Yippee-IA: All you need to know about Information Architecture in 5 minutes
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Yippee-IAAll you need to know about
Information Architecture in 5 minutes
@chrishow#uxcb14
A definition
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART & SCIENCE OF ORGANISING AND LABELLING WEBSITES TO SUPPORT TASK COMPLETION AND INTUITIVE ACCESS TO CONTENT
“Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects.
Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve.
It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman (Founder of A List Apart)
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"An information architect is the individual who organises the patterns inherent in data, making the complex clear.”
– Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety (1976).
There are only 5 ways to organise things
LocationAlphabetTimeCategoryHierarchy
Random is not a way of organising things.
There are only 5 ways to organise things
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Location
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Location
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Location
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Alphabet
Alphabet
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Alphabet
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Time
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Time
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Time
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Time
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Category
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Category
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Category
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Hierarchy
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Hierarchy
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Hierarchy
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Mixing them up
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Where the record was recorded
By the singer’s family nameWhen the record was released
The emotions the music provokesBPM of the fastest tune
Location
Alphabet
TimeCategory
Hierarchy
Less intuitive ways to organise a record store
LocationAlphabetTimeCategoryHierarchy
Your turn to help me
Yippee-IACongratulations. You are now an
Information Architect.
@chrishow#uxcb14
