The Inside and Outside of Information Architecture

I gave a talk on Information Architecture (IA) in our company (@ThoughtWorks) a few months ago. With the hope of making the topic concrete and down-to-earth, I followed an “inside and outside” framework which (hopefully) connects theory, method, and practice.

Below are the slides forming the main part of the session:

Interpreting “Information” and “Architecture” respectively

An accepted definition of IA

IA, navigation, and sitemap are three different concepts

What’s the relation between IA is and UX

The design principle of IA

The outside of IA — deliverables

The outside of IA — by-products

The inside of IA — information Ecology

The inside of IA — information ecology

How to create a new information architecture

How to evaluate an existing information architecture

Tools to build/evaluate an IA — sitemap

Tools to build/evaluate an IA — sitemap

Tools to build/evaluate an IA — flowchart

Tools to build/evaluate an IA — interaction map

Tools to build/evaluate an IA — interaction map

Possible pitfalls of IA

https://pansysiyujia.medium.com/reading-notes-of-information-architecture-part-i-8621bbbbe64a

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