{"id":225,"date":"2017-07-28T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/web\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2017-12-27T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:21:33","slug":"information-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/web\/information-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Information Architecture<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information architecture is the practice of organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>IA web resources<\/h2>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/information-architecture\/index.html\">Information architecture methods<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/organization-schemes.html\">Organization Schemes<\/a>: tasks, topics, audiences<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/organization-structures.html\">Organization Structures<\/a>: \u00a0hierarchy, sequence, matrix<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/tree-testing\/\">Tree testing<\/a>: quickly evaluate menu labels and categories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='shortcode-column-container'><!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<h4>Card sorting<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/card-sorting.html\">How to do card sorting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Card_sorting\">Card sorting on Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<h4>Content strategy<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/content-inventory.html\">Content Inventory<\/a>: list what you have, and then list what you want to keep as is, modify, add, delete<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/what-and-why\/content-strategy.html\">Content Strategy Basics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webstyleguide.com\/wsg3\/3-information-architecture\/2-organizing-information.html\">Organizing Your Information<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Navigation<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/audience-based-navigation\/\">Audience-Based Navigation: 5 Reasons to Avoid It<\/a>: don\u2019t assume that organizing by types of students\u2014undergraduate, graduate, transfer, etc.\u2014is the best approach<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/user-research\/index.html\">User research<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/personas.html\">Personas<\/a>: fictional but representative descriptions of people who use your website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/scenarios.html\">Scenarios<\/a>: stories about why certain types of personas come to your website and what they hope to accomplish there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Usability testing<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/running-usability-tests.html\">Running a usability test<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sensible.com\/downloads-rsme.html\">Downloadable usability test tools<\/a>: script, checklist, consent form<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">IA publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1491911689\/\">Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond<\/a> by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability\/dp\/0321965515\/\">Don\u2019t Make Me Think<\/a> by Steve Krug<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0300211651\/webstyleguidecom\">Web Style Guide<\/a> by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (NOTE: The <a href=\"http:\/\/webstyleguide.com\/index.html\">third edition<\/a> of this book, which is still useful, is available online for free.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Architecture Information architecture is the practice of organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way. \u00a0The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks. 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