Information Architecture was the topic of this week’s lecture. This term was coined by Richard Saul Wurman 1976. One term that describes Information Architecture is a combination of organisation, labelling, and navigation schemes within an information system.
Wurman’s lists 5 Organisation of Content:
Location: The Canberra Centre website uses this form of content arrangement. The user can select a part of the map to give them their desired information.
Alphabet: Again the Canberra Centre site uses this formality to search for stores in the Centre by selecting letters of the alphabet.
Time: At the Movies website searches for movies by the date they were added. Time based organisation of content is also seen in blogs.
Category: The ITunes Music store uses categories to organises content and music into different genres ie. Rock, country.
Hierarchy: Torpedo7 uses hierarchy to organise data ie. Cheapest to most expensive, popularity etc.
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