A Practical Guide to Information Architecture. A book by Donna Spencer, published by Five Simple Steps, available in PDF, ePub and Paperback from £12.
If you're a website designer, intranet manager or someone without much Information Architecture experience, this book answers all those questions you were afraid to ask.
Drawing on her many years experience of practising and teaching Information Architecture, Donna Spencer guides you through some simple steps to better IA and leaves you feeling empowered and able to run your own IA projects. Whether it's organising content, providing clear descriptions or ways for people to get to them, this book is armed with practical advice and examples.
On September 16, I'll be giving a virtual seminar for the awesome folks at User Interface Engineering. It's all about different types of organization scheme and how to choose the best for your content.
Here's a sneak preview, looking at one of my least favourite organization schemes.
read moreSo here I am, in the middle of documenting an IA for a client intranet project, and I find out that my site is ready to release, as soon as I write an intro for it.
The timing was perfect - as I was documenting this IA for my client I was thinking 'oh, I wish I had included that in the book', 'I really should have elaborated on this more'. Of course, the same was happening while I was working on this project - doing the user research, running a card sort, drafting the actual IA. I kept thinking about little things I would have liked to say more about and the tips I forgot.
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