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Designing Information Architecture

by Pabini Gabriel-Petit

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Book Details

Book Title

Designing Information Architecture

Author

Pabini Gabriel-Petit

Publisher

Packt Publishing Pvt Ltd

Publication Date

2025

ISBN

9781838827199

Number of Pages

629

Language

English

Format

PDF

File Size

13.7MB

Subject

web-development

Table of Contents

  • 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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