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• Designing Information Architecture
• Foreword
• Contributors
• About the author
• About the reviewers
• Preface
• Part I: Fundamentals of Information Architecture
• Chapter 1: What Is Information Architecture?
• Defining information architecture
• Goals of information architecture
• Information ecosystems
• The value of information architecture
• Who is responsible for information architecture?
• Core information-architecture skills
• Overview of the information-architecture process
• Key components of information architecture
• Summary
• References
• Further reading
• Chapter 2: How People Seek Information
• Understanding users’ information-seeking needs
• Information-seeking models
• Information-seeking strategies and tactics
• Information-seeking behaviors
• Summary
• References
• Further reading
• Chapter 3: Design Principles
• Designing for human capabilities
• Designing digital spaces for wayfinding
• Summary
• References
• Further reading
• Chapter 4: Structural Patterns and Organization Schemes
• Structural patterns
• Organization schemes
• Summary
• References
• Further reading: Books
• Part II: Foundations of Information-Architecture Strategy
• Chapter 5: UX Research Methods for Information Architecture
• Card-sorting methods
• UX research methods that inform structure and labeling
• UX research methods for evaluating findability
• Data analytics
• Summary
• References
• Further reading: Books
• Chapter 6: Understanding and Structuring Content
• Content-analysis heuristics
• Content-analysis methods
• Content modeling
• Summary
• References
• Further reading
• Chapter 7: Classifying Information
• Principles of information categorization
• Key goals of classifying information
• Challenges of categorizing information
• Controlled vocabularies
• Social classification
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 8: Defining an Information-Architecture Strategy
• Understanding and aligning with business strategy
• Synthesizing UX research findings
• Understanding an organization’s content
• Learning about implementation technology
• Looking at the big picture
• Other IA strategy concerns
• Envisioning, communicating, and validating your conceptual models
• Documenting and presenting your IA strategy
• Summary
• References
• Part III: Designing Information Architectures for Digital Spaces
• Chapter 9: Labeling Information
• Designing effective labeling systems
• Attributes of effective labels
• Types of labels
• Enabling browsing and searching the Web
• Creating iconic versus textual labels
• Translating textual labels
• Discovering possible labels for categories
• Defining optimal labels for categories
• Designing labels for navigation systems and pages
• Testing labels with users
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 10: Designing and Mapping an Information Architecture
• Evaluating any existing information architecture
• Choosing an organizational model
• Categorizing and labeling an information space’s content
• Diagramming an information architecture
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 11: Foundations of Navigation Design
• Key concerns of navigation design
• Key objectives for designing navigation systems
• Navigation design guidelines
• Types of navigation
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 12: Designing Navigation
• Navigation design patterns
• Visualizing navigation design
• Testing navigation design
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 13: Designing Search
• Challenges of searching an information space
• Assessing the need for an internal search system
• The value of implementing an internal search system
• Optimizing the quality of search results
• Optimizing the search experience
• Search user-interface design patterns
• Presenting search results
• Some specialized types of search systems
• Summary
• References
• Index
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