Week 5 lecture was about information architecture. In 1976 Richard Saul Wurman coined the term Information architecture. Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville describe information architecture for the web in 4 ways:
- The combination of organization, labelling, and navigation schemes within an information system.
- The structural design of an information space to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content.
- The art and science of structuring and classifying websites and intrants to help people find and manage information.
- An emerging discipline and community practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
From my understanding, information architecture is planning and structuring of your website in regards to how everything will work.
Richard Saul Wurman also describes a way for organising content called LATCH:
L) Location
A) Alphabet
T) Time
C) Category
H) Hierarchy
This will help to decide what you want and how you want things to be found on your site. There are different classification processes that can be applied to websites.- Posted:2 years ago
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