Information Architecture

Curated collection of Information Architecture related resources.

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Building Block Design: A Modular Design Strategy for UXers

If you hate stories, you should skip this part. It’s about a UX designer who was tasked with championing a modular design strategy for her organization. She has short brown hair and…

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Why IA Matters for UX – A Brief History of Information Architecture

Imagine arriving at a foreign airport with no navigational signage around you. You will get terribly lost. A well-design wayfinding system helps us navigate a new environment so answer the following questions:…

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Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking

What Is Information Architecture? Simply put, Information Architecture is the structure of all the information in your app or website. When we put care into the arrangement of information, we can make…

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Information Architecture. Basics for Designers

The World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information which is hard to imagine unstructured because a human brain wouldn’t be able to perceive any single thing. People got used to…

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Spotify UX Analysis and Redesign

I love music and use Spotify everyday, when I’m struggling to get up in the morning, when I’m focusing at work and when I’m taking a shower in the evening. It has…

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Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems

In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and…

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Information Architecture: The Structure Behind Your User Interface

When information architecture (IA) arrived on the scene in the late 1990s, it brought attention to an aspect of user-interface design that was then only marginally understood: structure. The need to focus…

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The Rules for Modern Navigation

Websites provide access to all sorts of information. Whether we want to to learn more about an organization, purchase an item, donate to a cause, or access a resource, we’re dependent on…

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3 Placemaking Lessons From the Magic Kingdom

UX designers need to know about placemaking, and Disneyland is a great example to learn from. If you design software, you need to know about placemaking. Why? Because the websites and apps…

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Understanding Information Architecture

In 1964, “Architecture an IBM System/360” (Amdahl et al 1964), an IBM research paper defined architecture as “The conceptual structure and functional behavior, distinguishing the organization of data flows and controls, logical…

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Information Architecture: The Scaffold of Good UX

Information architecture is fundamentally about organizing information and providing structure in a way that makes sense. As a field, information architecture emerged from the earlier days of the web and enterprise software…

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Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture

Information architecture is a task often shared by designers, developers, and content strategists. But regardless of who takes on the task, IA is a field of its own, with influences, tools, and…

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