INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
SITES
Argus Center for Information Architecture
Event listings, interviews, and papers about information architecture.
Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web
Outlines several proposed organization schemes for the Web.
Navigating through Stars: An Information Architecture Critique of Stars.com
Outlines principles of site architecture and navigation through a critique of Stars.com.
PsyberSpace.NET Blogger
A blog ("weblog") providing links to, and searches of, articles and sites dealing with user interface and information architecture issues.
Squishy's Crash Course in Information Architecture
From Webmonkey comes this thorough five-part tutorial on web site information architecture.
Web Review: Web Architect
Articles on site architecture by Web Review's web architects, Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville.
ARTICLES
Alex Wright
An interview with Alex Wright, VP of User Experience at Phoenix Pop, in which he talks about the process of communicating IA ideas to a design team, and the need for better tools for information architects. (11/29/2000 at Argus Center for Information Architecture)
A Cross Browser Expanding and Collapsing Table of Contents Menu
Building a dynamic table of contents for a set of documents, using Javascript. (3/15/2000 at SiteExperts)
Effective Info Architecture
A crash course in the techniques of information architecture: personas, card sorting, and pen and paper testing. (9/17/2001 at Web Techniques)
File Addressing
A run-down of the ways to refer to links and images using filepaths (e.g., "../image.gif"): default, absolute, relative, and root addressing. (8/30/2000 at Web Developers' Journal)
Information Architecture and Business Strategy
Information architecture and business strategies are inter-related; each should affect the other. (8/30/2000 at Argus Center for Information Architecture)
Information Architecture for the Rest of Us
A short, simple explanation of information architecture, described through a simple analogy. (1/17/2002 at WebWord.com)
Is Your Site Shoppable?
Tips on converting users who browse your ecommerce site into buyers. Includes advice on making the user comfortable with your site, streamlining their access to product info, and building loyalty. (1/25/2000 at builder.com)
A Map of Yahoo!
A look at how ET-Map, an information visualization tool that maps websites to three dimensions, represents Yahoo's structure. (2/1/2000 at Mappa Mundi)
Navigation Structures: Building Your Site's Backbone
How your navigation system reflects your website's information structure: going beyond a single primary navigation system; virtual structure and virtual directories; internal linking; more. (4/27/2001 at Web Review)
XML for Information Architecture
List member Dan Ancona has proposed IAML, a markup language for information architecture, to the XML-DEV mailing list, and is working on software to provide graphical interpretation of the language. (12/19/2000 at xmlhack)
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