About Information Architecture (IA)

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Articles About IA


An IA Tutorial


IA In The News


Resources For IA Information

Krug, S. (2005). Don’t make me think!: A common sense approach to web usability (2nd Ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: New Riders Press.
Morville, P. (2005). Ambient findability. Sebastapol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
Rosenfeld, L. and Morville, P. (1998, 2002, 2006). Information architecture for the world wide web. Sebastapol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
Snyder, C. (2003). Paper prototyping: The fast and easy way to design and refine user interfaces. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
US Department of Health and Human Services. Research-based web design and usability guidelines. Available from http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html
Wikipedia. Information architecture. Available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture
The Information Architecture of Everyday Things by Jesse James Garrett jjg.net/ia/files/jjg_everyday_031702.ppt
Simmons Web Design Guidelines
The web site of Roger Johansson, a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. A Simmons recommended site.
Web Usability. A site that provides website usability and accessibility services to the corporate, not-for-profit and government sectors. A Simmons recommended site.
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D.,founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods. A Simmons recommended site.
The website of Shirley E. Kaiser, M.A., owner of SKDesigns. She specializes in user-friendly, accessible, standards-compliant sites with Web design, development, graphics, usability, information architecture, collaborative projects, and project management. A Simmons recommended site.
IA Library


IA Summit - The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. Click on this link to go to the main web site: IA Summit

This year's summit will take place in Miami, Florida, April 12-14. The IA Team will be submitting a proposal to participate in the summit.
The theme of the 2008 conference is "Experiencing Information". This theme "shifts the focus to users“. "A user experience exists only to allow people to ‘do things’ (in the broadest sense… buying books, sharing photos with friends, looking something up on wikipedia, etc). What dimensions of information do users typically experience while ‘doing things’, and how can we design information environments that best support these users and activities?”
Click here to read our proposal to participate in the 2008 Information Architecture Summit.


IA Course. Did you know that GSLIS offers a course on IA? Read the Web Development and Information Architecture course description here: LIS 531G

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