Keynote presentation by Louis Rosenfeld at the Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar; 26 July 2007, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
A Brief (and Practical) Introduction to Information Architecture
1. A Brief (and Practical) Introduction to Information Architecture Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar Monterrey, Nuevo Leon July 26, 2007 Louis Rosenfeld www.louisrosenfeld.com
10. What we do: A series of balancing acts IAs improve knowledge of the former; neutral balancers Customers vs. business Technology agnostics who go beyond tech requirements Build vs. buy IAs integrate both as part of broader info ecology Formal vs. emergent IAs develop balanced workflows and processes Centralization vs. autonomy IAs stronger in the latter, though data is ascendant Structured vs. semi-structured
27. The Pareto Principle in action Sorting queries by frequency results in a Zipf Distribution Can we improve performance for the most popular queries?
42. BBC content model for music artist descriptions album reviews album pages artist bios discography concert calendar TV listings
43. Content modeling use metadata to connect content objects artist description artist description artist description artist bio, discography, concert calendar, TV listing album review, artist description album page album review, discography, artist … link to other Content Objects… Artist Name , Channel, Date, Time… Artist Name , Tour, Venue, Date, Time… Artist Name , Individual Artist Name… Artist Name , Desc Author, Desc Date… Artist Name , Album Name , Release Date… Album Name , Artist Name , Review Author, Source, Pub Date… Album Name , Artist Name , Label, Release Date… … by leveraging common Metadata Attributes TV listing concert calendar artist bio artist description discography album review album page Content Objects…
45. The past and future of IA… in logos time External IAs Internal IAs Senior information architect Director of User Experience Chief Experience Officer Chief Information Officer … CEO?