1. Information Architecture & Design
Week 2 Schedule
Syllabus Updates
Mailing List
Review of IA & Design from Readings
Project Review and Selection
EFF Austin
Campaigns for People
iSchool-Ware
iSchool Tutorials
Web Books
Group Project Overviews

2. Review What is Information Architecture?
What Do Information Architects Do?
Approaches to Information Architecture
Information Architecture Process
Design and Information Architecture
Designers and Information Architects
Information as Product

3. What is Information Architecture?
Organization, labeling and navigational schemes in an information system
Managing the process
Structural design of an information space for task completion and access to content
Understanding Business and Implementing Goals
Art and science of structuring and classifying
Intranets and Web + applications, other technologies
Emerging discipline for improving design and architecture to “digital landscape”
Other skills, unique combinations and instances
Rosenfeld & Morville

4. Information Architecture Process
Planning
Analysis
Design
Technology Independent
Technology Dependent
Construction
Verification
Maintenance

5. Design is Solving Problems
Products that Solve Problems
Information as Product
Connections as Product
Processes that Solve Problems
Education
Business Transformation

6. Designers & Information Architects
Focus on the Users
Apply Theory
Understand the System
Use Tools Proficiently
Extend the System
Create New Systems

7. Information as Product
“The Age of Also”
Options are Golden Handcuffs
End in Itself
Prosumption
The Age of User Groups (Teach & Learn at Once)
Society and Consumers (Precision & Repetition)
Information Presentation
Medium is the Message
Varieties of Literacy
The Internet Changes Everything?
Empowerment? (Value)
Speed?

8. Warp-Speed Rules for Info Design
Information is not enough.
Publishing and Presenting without reason
Organization is as important as content.
Your market is the world.
Users as Designers
Context
Integration for Operation.
Connected and Portable
Product Integration (cars-computers-phones…)
Size doesn’t really count.
Almost any can play (almost anyone does, see #1)
It’s not the what, but the how.
Commodities
Wurman

9. “Getting Serious Online”
1500 Interviews (March 2001)
More (significant)
More likely to turn to the Web
More Web Work, Less Web Play
More Home Work
More Web Business
Time Online – Less vs. More

10. “How Much Information” Project?
Politics and Economics
Increasing Volume of Information
1.5 B GB
250MB / person
Mostly Digital Information
Books
Films
Newspaper
Web – Computers (HD)
More Aware or Just More?

11. “How Much Information?” Cont.
“Informavores”
Information Presentation as Entertainment
McLuhan
Qualifications
Duplication
Compression
Archives
Geographic
Easier to Produce than to Consume
Continuous IA Projects

12. Group Project Overview
4 or 5 per Group
Group Work is Required
In Class
Outside of Class
Group Resources
Group Account and Web Space
Listserv, Blog, Wiki
More Than One Group Can Work on the Same Project

13. Group Projects
EFF Austin
Campaigns for People
Web Book
iSchool-Ware