• Overviews
• Tutorials
• Methods:
  • (Affinity Diagrams,
  • Card Sorting,
  • Content Inventory,
  • Free Listing,
  • Prototyping,
  • Wireframes)
• Comprehensive Sites
• Articles & Related Links

Overviews

• 10 questions about IA and information architects – Shel Kimen.
• Differences between Information Architecture and Information Design – Clark MacLeod.
• Defining Information Architecture – Peter Morville.
• Defining the damn thing – interactionbydesign.com. What is Information Architecture?
• Information Architecture – Valentin.
• Information architecture concepts – Thomas Myer.
• Information architecture defined – Christina Wodtke.
• Information architecture, finite yet unbounded – Adam Greenfield.
• Information architecture models – Ben Hunt.
• Tiffany Shlain on Information Design – Sarahjane White.
• The Definition of Information Architecture – Peter Morville.
• What Is Information Architecture? – Iain Barker.

Up to Page Index

Tutorials

• Architecture 101 – Rudy Limebac.
• Information Architecture Tutorial- John Shiple.
• Site Design – Yale Style Guide.
• Web Site Architecture 101.

Up to Page Index

Methods

Affinity Diagrams

• Affinity Diagrams by IAwiki.
• 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.
• Blueprints for the Web: Organization for the Masses – Christina Wodtke.
• Card sorting: a definitive guide – Donna Maurer and Todd Warfell.
• Card sorting and cluster analysis – Thomas Myer.
• 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 – 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.
• Fix Navigation to Improve Conversions, Part 1 – Bryan Eisenberg.
• Hierarchical Card Sorting – A Tool for Qualitative Research – Rick Davies.
• How to do a simple card sort .
• Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design – Gerry McGovern.
• Information design using card sorting – Card sorting is a very simple method of working with users to come up with a usable information design.
• Information Design Using Card Sorting by James Robertson.
• Multidimensional Scaling – Nathan Curtis.
• Put the ‘Card’ Back into Card Sorting: Computer-aided paper sorting (Caps) – William Hudson.
• Review – Eliciting and Modelling Expert Knowledge – G. Wright and P. Ayton.
• uzilla: cardsort – mozdev.org.
• Web-based Card Sorting for Information Architecture – Larry Wood, Jed Wood and John Anderson.
• What is Card Sorting? – Gerry Gaffney.

Free Listing

• Free Listing by IAwiki.

Content Inventory

• Doing a Content Inventory (Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site) – JeffreyVeen.
• Taking a Content Inventory – Donna Maurer.
• Taking A Content Inventory – Janice Crotty Fraser.
• The Rolling Content Inventory – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Why You Shouldn’t Start IA with a Content Inventory by Donna Maurer.

Prototyping

• 16 Years of Paper Prototyping – Jared M. Spool.
• A Forgotten Prototype Technique: Comics – Jared Spool.
• Balancing Fidelity in Prototyping – Henrik Olsen.
• Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping – Laura S. Quinn.
• 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 by UsabilityNet.
• Paper Prototyping: First Experiences and Lessons Learned – Guy Sangwine.
• Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code – Jakob Nielsen.
• Prototyping 2 separate studies.
• Prototyping Beyond the Sunshine Scenario: How to prototype derivations from the main flow – Henrik Olsen.
• Prototype now, save time later – Matthew Osborn.
• Prototyping – James Hom.
• Prototyping With PowerPoint – Jensen Harris.
• Prototyping With Style – Jeff Lash.
• Rapid Abstract Prototyping – Larry L. Constantine.
• Rapid Prototyping.
• The art of UI prototyping- Scott Berkun.
• 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 (2nd edition): How to use Visio for rapid prototyping – Henrik Olsen.

Wireframes

• Design Before You Build with Wire Frames – Tony Patton.
• Design Leads and Wireframes – Luke Wroblewsk.
• First Things First: IA and CSS – Nate Koechley.
• Gliffy.com Moves Wireframing Online – Garrick Van Buren.
• How do we do HTML wireframes? – Gene Smith.
• HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain – Julie Stanford.
• In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic – Christian Romney.
• Know Your Place – Nathan Curtis.
• Make an HTML Wireframe – Dustin Diaz.
• 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 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.
• Wireframing the Content – Kevin Leitch.
• Wireframe Annotations in Visio : Special Deliverable #11 – Dan Brown
• WireFrames by IAwiki.
• Wire Frame Your Site – Matt Beach.
• (Wire)frame yourself.

Up to Page Index

Comprehensive Sites

• Boxes and Arrows.
• Croc O’ Lyle – Lyle Kantrovich’s blog. Lyle is a practicing User Experience Architect who shares his advice, opinions, interesting links on usability, design, and information architecture.
• Elegant Hack – Christina Wodtke’s Site. Her blog also has great info.
• Findability.org – Peter Morville.
• IA at Digital Web Magazine – digital-web.com.
• iaslash – Michael Angeles’ Blog.
• IAwiki – Eric Scheid, founder and host.
• InfoDesign – Peter J. Bogaards. A portal for the information design community.
• Information Architecture Resources – Jesse James Garrett’s great list of resources, intro material, and original research.
• The Information Architecture Institute.
• LucDesk – Lucian Millis.
• peterme – Peter Merholz’s usability and information architecture blog.
• Visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design – Jesse James Garrett.

Up to Page Index

Articles & Related Links

• 6 Ways to Fix a Confused Information Architecture – Jakob Nielsen.
• A Research Agenda for Information Architecture – Peter Van Dijck.
• A User-Centered Approach to Selling Information Architecture – Jeff Lash.
• Architecture Books.
• Architecting Our Profession – Clifton Evans.
• An Introduction to User Journeys – Jason Hobbs.
• An update on breadth vs. depth – Kath Straub and Susan Weinschenk.
• Beyond the IA Guy, Defining information architecture – By David Wertheimer.
• Big Architect, Little Architect – Peter Morville.
• Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture: the v-2 interview – Adam Greenfield.
• Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture Second Annual Report – AIfIA
• Bottoms Up – Peter Morville.
• Broken links and poor information architecture design – Gerry McGovern.
• 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.
• Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a Difference – Elin K. Jacob.
• Cognitive Psychology & IA: From Theory to Practice – Jason Withrow.
• Coming of Age – Erin Malone.
• Coming to Terms – George Olsen says it is time to drop the big name “information architecture” and use “user experience” – of which little IA is a sub-field.
• Competitive Analysis: Understanding the Market Context – Jason Withrow.
• Critical Architectural Junctures – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Day 1: IA Summit 2004 Wrapup – Boxes and Arrows Staff.
• Day 2: IA Summit 2004 Wrapup – Boxes and Arrows Staff.
• Defining Information Architecture Deliverables – Christina Wodke.
• Deliverables and Methods: Special Deliverable #8 – Dan Brown.
• Depth vs Breadth in the Arrangement of Web Links – Panayiotis Zaphiris and Lianaeli Mtei.
• Designing for Limited Resources – Laura S. Quinn.
• Designing Information Architecture – Rashi Sinha.
• Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy – Christian Ricci.
• 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.
• Don’t Forget to Architect the Home Page – David Wertheimer.
• Emergent Architecture – Eric Scheid.
• Enterprise IA as intellectual property – Lou Rosenfeld.
• Enterprise IA Roadmap – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Enterprise IA summary – Gene Smith.
  • Enterprise IA summary – Gene Smith.
• Enterprise IA Roadmap, version 2 – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Essay on the state of information architecture – Jesse James Garrett.
• Ethics of Information Architecture – Peter Morville.
• Evaluating Information Architecture – Steve Toub.
• Freedom in Structure – Molly E. Holzschlag.
• Front-End Architecture: Markup is the Technical Foundation – Garrett Dimon.
• First Things First: IA and CSS – Christina Wodtke and Nate Koechley.
• Focus on the Student: How to Use Learning Objectives to Improve Learning – Wendy Cown.
• Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them – Donna Maurer.
• Foundations of Web Design- Jeffrey Veen.
• Getting IA Done: Part I – Joshua Kaufman.
  • Getting IA Done, Part II – Joshua Kaufman.
• Good Information Architecture Increases Online Sales – Ivan Walsh.
• IA for Web Developers Presentation – Thomas Vander Wal.
• IA in Academia – IA Wiki.
• IA Library Quick Reference: Special Deliverable #7 – Dan Brown.
• IA/recon – Jesse James Garrett.
• IA Summit 2005 Presentations – iasummit.org.
• IA Summit 2006 Presentations – iasummit.org.
• IA Summit 2006 Presentation: We Are Not Alone – Jared Spool.
• IA Trends Survey Results and Analysis – Louis Rosenfeld.
• IA wiki – the Information Architect’s Wiki.
• Information Architecture – R. E. Wyllys.
• Information Architecture 2.0 – Dan Brown.
• 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: Blueprints for the Web – Ryan Olshavsky.
• Information Architecture: Carrying out a Classification Situation Analysis – Gerry McGovern.
• Information Architecture Glossary – Kat Hagedorn.
• Information Architecture Exercises – Peter Van Dijck.
• Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success – a sample chapter by Peter Van Dijck.
• Information Architecture for Everyone – D. Keith Robinson.
• Information Architecture is not Usability – Jeff Lash.
• Information Architecture in an European Dimension: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats – Peter J. Bogaards.
• Information Architecture Library – Information Architecture Institute.
• Information Architecture Really Is A Creative Pursuit – Abel Lenz.
• 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: From Craft to Profession – Earl Morrogh.
• Information Architecture Research Agenda – Keith Instone.
• Information architecture versus graphic design – Gerry McGovern.
• Information architecture: webpage mental maps emerge – Gerry McGovern.
• Information Specialists at the Intersection of Information Architecture and Usability – Alison J. Head.
• Innovation Architecture – Peter Morville.
• Information Architecture: Learning How To Classify – Gerry McGovern.
• Information Design: The Understanding Discipline – Dirk Knemeyer.
• Information design: What is it? Who needs it? – Terry Irwin.
• Information Needs Analysis – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Information Scent: Helping People Find the Content They Want – Iain Barker.
• Introduction to Information Architecture – Austin Govella.
• International Information Architecture – Peter Morville.
• J-Flow Presentation – Peter Boersma and Jacco Nieuwland.
• Journeys, Needs, and Trust: A Volkswagon Case Study – Jason Hobbs.
• J R R Tolkien was an information architect – Gerry McGovern.
• Labels – Links.
• Little Blue Folders – Peter Morville.
• Making Cents from Information Architecture – Alan K’necht.
• Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! – Lars Marius Garshol.
• Metadata and Taxonomies for a More Flexible Information Architecture – Amy Warner.
• Michael Graber Contemplates The Poetics of Information Architecture.
• Organized Chaos – Peter Merholz.
• Out with the New! The IA Summit at Five Years – Andrew Dillo.
• Navigation References – Lots of links.
• Pace, Timing and Rhythm in Information Architecture – Andrew Dillon.
• Patterns.
• Persuasive Architecture: How to Get Your Visitors to Take Action – GrokDotCom.
• Planning for redesign, 1: Establishing the context – Adam Greenfield.
• Programming for Information Architects – Andrew Otwell.
• Proposal for an IA Curriculum – Victor Lombardi.
• Origin of the Phrase ‘Information Architecture’ – R.E. Wyllys.
• Questions Information Architects Ask – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Ranganathan for IAs – Mike Steckel.
• Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists – Rob Fay.
• Rosenfeld Explains Enterprise Information Architecture – Ann Light.
• Designing for Scalability – Jeff Lash.
• Scalability vs Performance – Drew McLellan.
• Seb’s Open Research on the IA Summit 2005 – Sebastien Paquet.
• Selecting IA Components – Lou Rosenfeld.
• Setting Up Web Site Categories – Lynda Weinman.
• Simplicity vs. Innovation – Peter-Paul Koch.
• Social Information Architecture, Sorting, and Tagging – Christian Crumlish.
• Soft Skills for Information Architecture – Jeff Lash.
• Software for Information Architects – Peter Morville.
• Structure Yields Usability – John Rhodes.
• Strategic IA vs Technical IA – IAwiki.
• Strategies for Categorizing Categories – User Interface Engineering.
• Task Oriented Information Architecture – Michael Andrews.
• Team Size and Individual Responsibilities – Mike Rundle.
• Teaching Information Architecture to the Design Student – James Spahr.
• Techniques For IA – IAwiki.
• The Age of Information Architecture – Jeff Lash.
• The Blooming of Information Architecture at Google: A Close Look at Facets, Tags & Categories in GoogleBase – Rashmi Sinha.
• The Bulletin of Information Architecture (August/September 2006 issue).
• The Confluence of Research and Practice in Information Architecture – Karl Fast.
• The End is Nigh – Andrew Dillon.
• 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 Design approach to Web development – Dirk Knemeyer.
• The myth of User-Centered Information Architecture – Jeff Lash.
• The Reinvention of Information Design – David Sless.
• The Sociobiology of Information Architecture – Alex Wright.
• The Speed of Information Architecture – Peter Morville.
• The Tail Wags the Dog – Lou Rosenfeld.
• The User Advocate: One Size Fits None? – Dave Rogers.
• The Visual Vocabulary Three Years Later: An Interview with Jesse James Garrett – Dan Brown.
• The Web, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design – Jonathan Korman.
• Three Lessons from Tufte: Special Deliverable #6 – Dan Brown.
• Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture – Joshua Porter.
• Uncovering Solid Foundations for Persuasive Architecture – Bryan Eisenberg.
• Understanding Information Taxonomy Helps Build Better Apps – Jie-Hong Morrison.
• Using a “Strawman” for Page Layout Design – Donna Maurer.
• User Experience Honeycomb – Peter Morville.
• Underused IA Tools – Peter Van Dijck.
• Visio Replacement? You Be the Judge – Scott McDowell.
• We Are All Connected: The Path from Architecture to Information Architecture – Fu-Tien Chiou.
• Web site Architecture – Hilton Harbour.
• Web Site Architecture And Search Engines – Part 1 – Shari Thurow.
• What Is Findability – IAwiki.
• What Lies Beneath? – Adam Greenfield.
• Whole Lotta IA Survey Results Now Available – Louis Rosenfeld.
• Yet More Thoughts on Global Information Architecture – Louis Rosenfeld.

© Copyright Xpert Web Consulting.

RSS Articles RSS Comments RS