Tuesday, 7 October 2008

The need for information architecture

Coming from a "nuts and bolts" kind of systems analysis background, I have to work hard at taking a more user experience driven view at development projects. Though I have worked on this front for several years now I am consequently constantly looking for structured approaches to user experience design and the varied facets (or "planes" as Garret refers to them in his seminal primer on user experience disciplines).

I found an interesting set of presentations recently on slideshare from the euroia2008 (the European Information Architecture summit). Predictably enough, these presentations focus on information architecture and do not provide anything like an overarching user experience framework, but they do give a few ideas about where things are going in this space and some nice concrete examples of approaches to try out.

Much to my surprise, it turns out it isn't just about a having a sitemap and a navigation structure ;-). Definitely worth a browse! The slides are here

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