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Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
Modeling the Content Experience:
Delivering the Right Content, to the Right Person,
in the Right Place, at the Right Time
Andrea L. Ames, IBM @aames
Senior Technical Staff Member &
Enterprise Content Experience Strategist/Architect/Designer
07 May 2017
Washington, D.C.
Much of the material in this deck was developed in partnership with Alyson Riley and is used with permission
© IBM Corporation 2017. All Rights Reserved
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About Andrea
Areas of expertise
Content experience: Content strategy,
content architecture, and interaction design
for content display and delivery, within products
and interactive content delivery systems
Architecture, design, and development of embedded assistance
(content within or near the product user interface)
Content and product usability, from analysis through validation
User-centered process for content and content experience development
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member/Enterprise Content Experience
Strategist, chief content strategists for the IBM Digital Integrated
Content Center of Excellence
UCSC in Silicon Valley “Technical Writing and Communication”
certificate program chair and instructor
STC Fellow, past president (2004-05) and former member of
Board of Directors (1998-2006)
ACM Distinguished Engineer
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Agenda
Workshop introduction
Level set: Information architecture
Process and pre-work: Requirements, scenarios, and
experience design
Developing and applying models: Use, content, and
access
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Setting the scene for the workshop
Experiential through exercises
The project is merely the bagel (or cracker-–your choice) on which to
deliver the cream-cheesy goodness of the modeling concepts J
The scope of the project and discussion is primarily product-specific,
due to time constraints
There’s more, and I’ll occasionally mention the “more”
If you're a smart content strategist, information architect, technical
communicator, etc., you'll be thinking about the “more” and trying to
integrate
Whenever there’s time, I’ll address the “more” questions
For “more,” see (URLs in references):
2013 LavaCon Unified Content Strategy Workshop session: Building
a Content Strategy Ecosystem
2013 STC Summit Strategic IA Bootcamp certificate
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Success factors
Share a definition of content experience modeling—understand what
models are and why they are important
Take away some actionable ways that you can approach modeling your
own enterprise content experience
Understand the general modeling process, from analysis and requirements
definition through delivery of a release-specific information architecture,
and how it functions within the product development process
Define and create use, content, and access models
Apply abstract models to create a concrete IA for a specific product release
Have fun!
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Level set: Information architecture
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Information architecture: A simple definition
Information architecture is about
Delivering high-value content
In an effective content experience
That enables client success
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Information architecture: 2 scopes
Strategic IA (aka
Content Strategy)
§ Abstract
§ Typical tasks include:
—Architect a product’s
total information
experience (not just
technical docs)
Tactical IA
§ Concrete
§ Typical tasks include:
—Update a navigation tree
according to design
guidelines and standards
—Apply models and
guidelines to develop
information architecture
for a product release or
self-contained information
deliverable
—Solve architectural issues
with guidance from a
strategic information
architect (IA) or
information strategist
—Develop a cross-product or portfolio
information experience
—Prioritize requirements
—Apply models in new and novel ways to
get validated improvements in the end-to-
end information experience
—Provide input for model or guideline
improvement
—Create and validate new models and
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IA in technical communication
Concrete resultProduct-specific details
+ =
We deliver consistent information architecture across
a diversity of teams and products
through a repeatable process that involves
applying concrete data to abstract architectural models.
Abstract model
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IA impact: On the client experience
Our customers—and probably yours, too!—
consistently request:
§ Better retrievability
§ Solution-oriented information
§ A seamless information experience
Good information architecture fulfills these
requests by delivering:
§ Retrievable information
§ Consumable information
§ Cohesive information based on a consistent mental model,
especially across products
§ Appropriate information—that is, only the information our
customers need, where and when they need it, for their particular
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IA impact: On business strategy and success
Effective information architecture contributes to:
§ Product awareness, interest, and consideration—through
aligning all aspects of the information experience to ensure strong,
visible, consistent messaging (does your technical information prove
what your marketing information promises?)
§ Mindshare—through content that is ranked highly by search engines
and information experiences that generate social capital (which also
leads to awareness, interest, and consideration—key precursors to
revenue opportunities)
§ Sales and revenue—through referrals from technical information and
reuse in sales collateral
§ Customer satisfaction by:
Reducing time-to-value and speeding time-to-success
Reducing total cost of ownership
Reducing customer support calls @aames
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Use Model
Common scenarios
that describe
interactions between
users and content
Content Model
Building blocks—
how we create content
to make reusable,
consistent assets
Access Model
Navigation, wayfinding,
discovery, and retrieval—
how users find
information
Progressive
disclosure
Model for
revealing only
the content that
users really
need
Navigation
patterns
Consistent
structures for
content retrieval
based on user
goals and tasks
Content
types
Definitions and
templates used to
deliver consistent,
complete content
Taxonomy &
metadata
Classification
schemes that help
IBM manage and
reuse its content and
customers find it
Tagging &
labels
Consistent
labeling and
tagging of
content, by IBM
and its clients
Search
Methods to
ensure
that content
and structures
are optimized
for search
Information Model
Abstract model to which
teams add unique offering
details to create concrete,
consistent IA
+ =
Models in IA
We use these architectural models:
… to help us define and apply:
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Process and pre-work
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The information architecture process
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design
analyze
develop
deploy maintain
plan
§ Development plans
§ User needs
§ Business strategy
§ Information & UX
strategy
§ Deep understanding of
company and customers
§ Scenarios
§ Information requirements
§ High-level architecture
§ Inputs to information
and quality plans
§ Infrastructure and
other requirements
§ Detailed architecture
§ Education
§ Design validation and
design iterations
§ Additional plan inputs
§ User validation data and analysis
§ Draft of next-release IA
§ User validation data and analysis
§ Usage stats and trend analysis
§ Customer feedback
§ Issue resolution
§ Further refined draft of next-
release IA
§ Usage stats and trend analysis
§ Customer feedback
§ Issue resolution
§ Requirements for next release
§ High-level IA for next release
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Identifying and prioritizing requirements
Identifying requirements
involves scientific research,
followed by artful analysis.
The process looks like this:
1. Gather business data
2. Gather client data
3. Gather the current content
ecosystem
4. Gather history
5. Gather political landscape
6. Extract requirements from
data
7. Prioritize requirements
After completing this task,
you will have:
§ A deep, nuanced
understanding of business
strategy, market drivers,
client needs, why things are
the way they are, and what
it will take to drive change
in the current climate
§ A list of business and user
requirements for your
information architecture to
address
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Where requirements come from
Portfolio
technical strategy
Marketing
Product management
DevelopmentInformation team
Manager
Customers
Corporate strategy
Division
Portfolio
business strategy
Information architect
Interaction design
Industry trends
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Developing scenarios
Before you can define
an architecture, you
have to know what your
users need:
1. Define your users
2. Define their goals,
tasks, and motives
3. Identify the content
that would be high-
value to them
After completing this task,
you will have
a collection of scenarios
that define:
§ Who your clients are—buyers,
users, etc.
§ What they already know
§ What they need to know
§ Why they need to know it
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Content
Presentation
Delivery
Navigation
User
Message
Motivation
Form/format
Layout
Where
When
Organization
Structure
Users: The center of the
content experience
Bring their perceptions and
judgments
Access the target of their
motivation—content –
through layers of
experience
If well designed, enable
user-content interaction
If poorly designed, inhibit
user-content interaction
Effective content experience
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Creating and applying models
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IA & models
IA is scientific:
It requires us to follow repeatable processes
It requires us to clearly define metrics
It requires us to define and validate theories
It requires us to identify variables
It requires us to know about things like human cognition
IA is art:
We develop a deep understanding of the human experience
We create meaning
We create simplicity and elegance out of complexity and chaos
Models help IAs blend science and art to achieve measurable results:
They help us follow the scientific method by defining and refining theories until we
achieve predictable, consistent results
They help us ask the right questions, discover patterns, and tolerate the ambiguity
that comes from dealing with people
They help us discover solutions by applying concepts in a systematic manner
nuanced by a vision for the human experience—NOT by following rules and recipes
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Models, defined: an example
Model house
§A blueprint that shows the ideal state of the
whole and ideal relationships between
constituent components
§A pattern for perfection
§A representation of what’s possible if price
were no object
Real house
§ Might differ from the model—
sometimes significantly—but is
still recognizable as a home
§ Purpose, form, and structure
are the same
§ Details may vary as a result of
the humans involved
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Lessons about models from our model home example
Models are a pattern, not a rule
Patterns are always adapted to the “fabric” with which you’re working
Fundamental purpose, form, and structure remain the same
Details may vary according to human need or circumstances
FNote: If your circumstances include things like “the developer says so” or “but we’ve
always done it this way,” we strongly encourage you to roll up your sleeves and fight for
your user!
Sometimes details are a big deal
Which house would you want to live in?
Good architects leverage the flexibility of the model only in ways that
benefit the humans involved (example: “I just don’t like windows” isn’t a
reason to break from the model)
Good architects always balance business issues (cost, time, etc.) with
user issues (wants and needs)
What’s boring in neighborhoods can be good for user experiences
Consistency is predictability
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Why models? Models help businesses think
Think, not cut-and-paste
For many larger organizations, it’s too expensive to develop templates for every
possible design context
Templates are hard-coded and can’t handle more than cut-and-paste design work
Scalability and adaptability
Abstract models scale with increases in complexity, number and diversity of users
Models are abstract, and as a result, ensure the information architecture remains
above the fray of trends and change
Abstract models can be adapted to handle technological innovation, changes in
strategy, flux in a product portfolio, new business processes, and evolution in the
market
Focus on high-value user interactions
Abstract models force an organization to identify, prioritize, and design for the user
interactions that are critical to business success
Technology, marketing strategies, and brand identity may evolve—
core user interactions are more stable
Consistency, with room for creativity
Abstract models can be used to align all aspects of a content experience
Abstract models drive focus on predictable user interactions while
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Why models? Models help users think
What users want to think about
Users want to think about their primary goals and tasks
Users do not want to spend time on figuring out how to use our frameworks to
achieve their goals and tasks
Our job is to eliminate cognitive load and help users focus mental space on
what’s really important to them
Toward an invisible architecture
Good abstract models are based on cognitive science and user-centered design
principles
As such, abstract models help us deliver an information architecture that users
don’t have to think about
Abstract models help our users maintain focus the things they really care about—
not navigating our framework
Abstract models make obvious things like:
What to do next
Where to go next
Whether the information answers the question
How to find more or different information that will answer the question
Thanks to Steve Krug and
his first law of usability—
“Don't make me think!”
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Why models? Models help communicators think
Abstract models remove the guesswork for technical communicators
Abstract models provide a framework for teams to think through things like:
Access
Delivery
Content
Presentation
Currency
Maintenance
Invaluable for teams new to information architecture or who lack a
dedicated information architect on their projects
Abstract models encapsulate lots of helpful theory
The best abstract models reflect current theory and research into human
cognition, user information-seeking and processing behaviors, and so on
This enables teams to focus less on theory and more on the specifics of their
target users and their needs, and how best to apply the models in their
design contexts
Teams learn by experience, with a solid foundation
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Why models? Models help IAs think
Abstract models encourage an IA to:
Keep user needs and business strategy in the forefront of her
thinking
Take risks and be creative in an intelligent, calculated, data-
centered, purpose-driven manner
Maintain the integrity of the overarching experience—that is,
ensure that the fundamental purpose, form, and structure of the
information experience remain the same
Tailor an information experience to meet specific user needs or
business challenges—that is, allow freedom in the details as
dictated by user need
Avoid confining an information experience to template
boundaries
Keep the focus on outcomes—results, not rules
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Key types of models
Use Model
Content Model
Access Model
Information Model
Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they
need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and
how they’ll use it.
Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to
larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and
metadata.
Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including
organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information
and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies.
Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together
and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other
kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project-
specific, and user-centered information architecture
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Developing a Use Model: Steps
1. Develop use scenarios.
Describe user interactions with the system.
Develop a scenario for each type of system/subsystem in the product,
offering, or solution.
List the high-value tasks (vs. system features).
2. Develop information-use scenarios.
Describe the ideal user interaction with content.
Ensure that information scenarios follow use scenarios.
3. Validate the model.
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Developing a Use Model: Result
A standard set of scenarios that describe an optimal user
experience with information
A standard set of user information requirements for specific
product or system contexts
A document describing how the use model can be applied to
produce an offering-specific information architecture
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1. Leverage your use model to determine users’ information needs:
The subjects and atomic units of information your users will need
The best ways to structure and combine the information
The best presentation style and media to communicate the information
The deliverable (or delivery vehicle) that will work best
2. Standardize common subjects of information in an enterprise-level taxonomy
(a structured collection of terms that describe what the information is about).
3. Standardize your list of required atomic units of information—the information
objects that you can’t break down into smaller pieces without making them
meaningless.
4. Define standard information deliverables and delivery vehicles, specifying
how to combine atomic units of information and common
subjects to deliver understandable, stand-alone information
products that humans will see and touch.
5. Develop presentation templates, indicating how to
use media to present the information deliverables
for human consumption.
6. Validate your model.
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Developing a Content Model: Steps
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Developing a Content Model: Result
A document describing required and optional deliverables
(collections of information atoms), how they relate to one
another and are used and delivered, and how the content
model can be applied to produce an offering-specific
information architecture
A collection of templates—one for each deliverable—describing
the required and optional elements of each
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Developing an Access Model: Steps
1. Leverage your use model to determine how users are most likely to
access (or need to access) your content to:
Searching for and finding relevant information
Following leads when searching
Scanning an information space to develop a sense
of its contents
Staying informed about updates or new content
Evaluating information for relevance
Using information to achieve a goal
2. Define the overarching strategy for user access to information.
3. Depict how a collection of access methods work together to
accommodate the wide range of user behaviors when navigating to
and within an information space.
4. Validate your model.
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A document describing the overall access strategy, how
multiple access methods work together, and the details
about how specific areas of access can be supported, as
well as how the content model can be applied to produce
an offering-specific information architecture
Any technology, business requirements, and user needs
that emerge from the detailed access-related patterns,
schemes, and strategies
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Developing an Access Model: Result
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Developing an Information Model: Steps
1. Start with the output of the other three modeling processes—use each
of the other models as input to the Information Model.
2. Define a high-level information architecture that defines the entire
information strategy and experience.
3. Define one or more low-level information
architectures that are focused on the details of
specific pieces of the total information solution.
4. Validate your model.
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Developing an Information Model: Result
A written description of an information strategy—that is, a document
describing the abstract model that includes:
How all dimensions of the information experience fit together
How content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other
kinds of offering-specific details to the abstract information model
in order to produce a concrete, project-specific, and user-centered
information architecture
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Applying models
Apply the models to
create a detailed,
prioritized, information
architecture for a
specific product (or
release):
1. Develop the high-level
design
2. Develop the product- or
release-specific Use Model
3. Consider the Content
Model to determine what
content collections should
be provided and how the
content will be presented
4. Consider the Access Model
to determine how users
will find the content
After completing this task,
you will have:
A detailed information architecture
defining:
§ What content will be provided
§ Where/when in the users’ task
flow it will be provided
§ How the content will be delivered
§ How the content will be
presented
§ How users will find the content
§ Priorities for the content
§ Mockups and designs for specific,
high-focus content components,
such as “Welcome”
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Applying your models, part 1
Models have value when applied systematically:
They enable IAs to develop usable architectures that in turn make it easy
for users to accomplish their goals with your product, project, solution or
other kind of offering.
They provide a consistent information experience across multiple
products, product families, or enterprises—even if information in various
places are developed by different writers and architects, or if offerings
have different product strategies or goals.
They also help writing teams by providing a framework for discovering
important details such as:
The order of user tasks
Which tasks to emphasize (and not)
The appropriate level of detail to include
The type of information to provide (expertise vs. “click this”)
The potential for gaps between tasks or across components
or products
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Applying your models, part 2
It’s important to validate across several different instances of the
applied model to ensure that the model works when instantiated with
various types of products or systems.
The key to applying the models is in the process of developing your
offering-specific information architecture.
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References and resources
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References
Building a Content Strategy Ecosystem,
LavaCon Unified Content Strategy Workshop, April 2013:
http://slidesha.re/17S782A
(or http://www.slideshare.net/aames/creating-a-content-strategy-ecosystem)
Strategic Information Architecture Boot Camp,
STC Summit, May 2013:
http://slidesha.re/1t4o7eu
(or http://www.slideshare.net/akriley/stc2013-strategic-iacertcourseallchartsamesriley)
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Additional resources
Online resources:
The Society for Technical Communication—http://www.stc.org
Intercom magazine’s January 2012 issue—a special edition devoted to information architecture!
Boxes and Arrows—http://www.boxesandarrows.com
The Information Architecture Institute—http://iainstitute.org
Print resources:
James Kalbach. “Designing for Information Foragers: A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking
on the World Wide Web.” Internetworking, Internet Technical Group newsletter. 27 January 2001.
Available at http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec00/article_information_foragers.html.
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler. Universal Principles of Design. Beverly, MA:
Rockport Publishers. (ISBN 978-1592535873)
Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol,
CA: O'Reilly Media. (ISBN 978-0596527341)
Jeffrey Rubin and Dan Chisnell. Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Wiley
Publishing, Inc. (ISBN 978-0470185483)
Richard Saul Wurman. Peter Bradford, ed. Information Architects. New York: Graphis. (ISBN 978-
1888001389)
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Backup
Model-development details
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Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together
and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or
other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project-
specific, and user-centered information architecture
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Key types of models
Content Model
Access Model
Information Model
Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what
they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need
it, and how they’ll use it.
Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to
larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and
metadata.
Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including
organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information
and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies.
Use Model
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Developing a Use Model, part 1
1. Develop use scenarios
Describe user interactions with the system.
Develop a scenario for each type of system/subsystem in
offering/solution.
Be sure the scenarios provide insight into questions such as:
Who are the users? What are their goals?
What’s the purpose of the product, system or solution?
What tasks will users do with the product? (Be sure to
decompose high-level tasks into lower-level tasks or
procedures. Identify prerequisite tasks and any dependencies
for successful task completion.)
Which tasks are the high-value ones necessary for achieving a
broader goal, and which ones are tasks merely required as a
result of product design or system features?
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Developing a Use Model, part 2
2. Develop information-use scenarios
Describe the ideal user interaction with content.
Ensure that information scenarios follow use scenarios.
Be sure the scenarios provide insight into questions such as:
What information do users need to complete the tasks defined in the
product- or system-usage scenarios, and at what points during product
use is the information needed?
What information do users need to achieve their broader business or
personal objectives?
How will users experience or interact with that information, both for their
own goals and as required by product or system tasks? Be sure to
address this question for each of the necessary tasks you have defined in
your product or system lifecycle.
How close to the product or system user interface does the information
need to be? Is it the interface? Or does it support the interface? Is it
task-disruptive to take the user away from the primary product or system
interface to access the information they need?
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Developing a Use Model, part 3
3. Validate the model.
Socialize it.
Conduct reviews with members of your IA community.
Validate with customers, in several concrete contexts, if
possible.
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Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together
and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or
other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project-
specific, and user-centered information architecture
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Key types of models
Use Model
Access Model
Information Model
Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they
need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and
how they’ll use it.
Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic
level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation,
taxonomy, and metadata.
Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including
organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information
and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies.
Content Model
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Developing a Content Model, part 1
1. Leverage your use model to determine users’
information needs:
The subjects and atomic units of information your users
will need
The best ways to structure and combine these building blocks
of information to reflect the user’s task flow
The best presentation style and media to communicate this
information to users given their skills and the tasks they’re
trying to accomplish, such as, interaction or information, text
or images, static images or moving images, audio, or
combinations of these
The deliverable (or delivery vehicle) that will work best, such
as, product- or system-embedded information, topics and
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Developing a Content Model, part 2
2. Standardize common subjects of information, or a
common collection of terms that describe what the
information is about, in an enterprise-level taxonomy.
3. Standardize your list of required atomic units of
information, or the information objects that you can’t
break down into smaller pieces without making them
meaningless.
Hint: Consider DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)
and its information types (concept, task, and so on) and
specializations.
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Developing a Content Model, part 3
4. Define standard information deliverables and delivery
vehicles, or how you combine atomic units of
information and common subjects to deliver
understandable, stand-alone information products that
humans will see and touch.
5. Develop presentation templates, or how you will use
media to present the information deliverables for
human consumption.
Consider the templates necessary to ensure an integrated,
consistent user experience.
Develop new templates by starting with those that are most
impactful to your user’s information experience or that
support business priorities.
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Developing a Content Model, part 4
6. Validate your model.
Socialize it.
Conduct reviews with members of the enterprise-wide IA
community.
Validate with customers, in several concrete content contexts,
if possible.
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Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together
and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or
other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project-
specific, and user-centered information architecture
53
Key types of models
Use Model
Content Model
Information Model
Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they
need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and
how they’ll use it.
Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to
larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and
metadata.
Defines a vision for how users will find your information,
including organization, structure, relationships between chunks
of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of
navigation strategies.
Access Model
@aames
Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
Developing an Access Model, part 1
Stay informed about updates or new content
How will you ensure that users have the most
up-to-date content?
How will you communicate the availability of
fresh or refreshed content?
Evaluate information for relevance
How will you help users discover the value of
your information as it relates to their goals and
needs?
What techniques will you use to distinguish
information objects from one another?
Will you allow users to apply their own
metadata to help themselves and others with
differentiation?
Use information to achieve a goal
What techniques will you use for in-page or in-
task wayfinding and discovery?
Will you allow users to customize the
information or the space for their own use, and
if so, how?
Search for and finding relevant information
How do your chosen approaches for
information delivery impact its findability?
What are the likely entry points into your
information architecture—marketing pages,
out-of-box materials, Google, “likes” on
Facebook?
How will your information architecture
promote search engine optimization (SEO)?
Follow leads when searching
How will users find their way through your
information space once they’ve found it?
Where do your users want or need to go next?
How will you enable discovery?
Scan an information space to develop a
sense of its contents
How will you enable users to develop a good
mental model of the information within a
particular space?
How will users self-locate within a navigation
hierarchy or other structure?
54
1. Leverage your use model to determine how users are most likely to access
(or need to access) your content to:
@aames
Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
55
Developing an Access Model, part 2
2. Define the overarching strategy for user access to
information.
3. Depict (with text, images, wireframes and prototypes) how
a collection of access methods work together to
accommodate the wide range of user behaviors when
navigating to and within an information space. Drill down
into the user experience and interface associated with
specific areas of access, and define things typically
associated with IA work like navigation patterns, labeling
schemes and linking strategies.
4. Validate your model: Socialize it. Conduct reviews with
members of the enterprise-wide IA community. Validate
with customers, in several concrete content contexts, if
possible.
@aames
Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
56
Key types of models
Use Model
Content Model
Access Model
Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they
need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and
how they’ll use it.
Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to
larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and
metadata.
Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including
organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information
and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies.
Information Model Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together
and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or
other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project-
specific, and user-centered information architecture
@aames
Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
57
Developing an Information Model, part 1
1. Start with the output of the other three modeling
processes—use each of the other models as input to the
Information Model.
2. Define a high-level information architecture that defines
the entire information strategy and experience.
3. Define one or more low-level information architectures
that are focused on the details of specific pieces of the
total information solution.
Example: Business strategy or product usability issues might
require an information architect to give particular focus to the
information strategy in support of a product out-of-box
experience—one specific piece within an overarching
information architecture.
@aames
Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit
58
Developing an Information Model, part 2
4.Validate your model.
Socialize it.
Conduct reviews with members of the enterprise-wide IA
community.
Validate with customers, in several concrete content contexts,
if possible.
@aames

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Modeling the Content Experience: Delivering the Right Content, to the Right Person, in the Right Place, at the Right Time

  • 1. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Modeling the Content Experience: Delivering the Right Content, to the Right Person, in the Right Place, at the Right Time Andrea L. Ames, IBM @aames Senior Technical Staff Member & Enterprise Content Experience Strategist/Architect/Designer 07 May 2017 Washington, D.C. Much of the material in this deck was developed in partnership with Alyson Riley and is used with permission © IBM Corporation 2017. All Rights Reserved
  • 2. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 2 About Andrea Areas of expertise Content experience: Content strategy, content architecture, and interaction design for content display and delivery, within products and interactive content delivery systems Architecture, design, and development of embedded assistance (content within or near the product user interface) Content and product usability, from analysis through validation User-centered process for content and content experience development IBM Senior Technical Staff Member/Enterprise Content Experience Strategist, chief content strategists for the IBM Digital Integrated Content Center of Excellence UCSC in Silicon Valley “Technical Writing and Communication” certificate program chair and instructor STC Fellow, past president (2004-05) and former member of Board of Directors (1998-2006) ACM Distinguished Engineer @aames
  • 3. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Agenda Workshop introduction Level set: Information architecture Process and pre-work: Requirements, scenarios, and experience design Developing and applying models: Use, content, and access 3 @aames
  • 4. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Setting the scene for the workshop Experiential through exercises The project is merely the bagel (or cracker-–your choice) on which to deliver the cream-cheesy goodness of the modeling concepts J The scope of the project and discussion is primarily product-specific, due to time constraints There’s more, and I’ll occasionally mention the “more” If you're a smart content strategist, information architect, technical communicator, etc., you'll be thinking about the “more” and trying to integrate Whenever there’s time, I’ll address the “more” questions For “more,” see (URLs in references): 2013 LavaCon Unified Content Strategy Workshop session: Building a Content Strategy Ecosystem 2013 STC Summit Strategic IA Bootcamp certificate 4 @aames
  • 5. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 5 Success factors Share a definition of content experience modeling—understand what models are and why they are important Take away some actionable ways that you can approach modeling your own enterprise content experience Understand the general modeling process, from analysis and requirements definition through delivery of a release-specific information architecture, and how it functions within the product development process Define and create use, content, and access models Apply abstract models to create a concrete IA for a specific product release Have fun! @aames
  • 6. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Level set: Information architecture @aames
  • 7. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 7 Information architecture: A simple definition Information architecture is about Delivering high-value content In an effective content experience That enables client success @aames
  • 8. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 8 Information architecture: 2 scopes Strategic IA (aka Content Strategy) § Abstract § Typical tasks include: —Architect a product’s total information experience (not just technical docs) Tactical IA § Concrete § Typical tasks include: —Update a navigation tree according to design guidelines and standards —Apply models and guidelines to develop information architecture for a product release or self-contained information deliverable —Solve architectural issues with guidance from a strategic information architect (IA) or information strategist —Develop a cross-product or portfolio information experience —Prioritize requirements —Apply models in new and novel ways to get validated improvements in the end-to- end information experience —Provide input for model or guideline improvement —Create and validate new models and guidelines @aames
  • 9. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 9 IA in technical communication Concrete resultProduct-specific details + = We deliver consistent information architecture across a diversity of teams and products through a repeatable process that involves applying concrete data to abstract architectural models. Abstract model @aames
  • 10. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 10 IA impact: On the client experience Our customers—and probably yours, too!— consistently request: § Better retrievability § Solution-oriented information § A seamless information experience Good information architecture fulfills these requests by delivering: § Retrievable information § Consumable information § Cohesive information based on a consistent mental model, especially across products § Appropriate information—that is, only the information our customers need, where and when they need it, for their particular business goals @aames
  • 11. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 11 IA impact: On business strategy and success Effective information architecture contributes to: § Product awareness, interest, and consideration—through aligning all aspects of the information experience to ensure strong, visible, consistent messaging (does your technical information prove what your marketing information promises?) § Mindshare—through content that is ranked highly by search engines and information experiences that generate social capital (which also leads to awareness, interest, and consideration—key precursors to revenue opportunities) § Sales and revenue—through referrals from technical information and reuse in sales collateral § Customer satisfaction by: Reducing time-to-value and speeding time-to-success Reducing total cost of ownership Reducing customer support calls @aames
  • 12. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 12 Use Model Common scenarios that describe interactions between users and content Content Model Building blocks— how we create content to make reusable, consistent assets Access Model Navigation, wayfinding, discovery, and retrieval— how users find information Progressive disclosure Model for revealing only the content that users really need Navigation patterns Consistent structures for content retrieval based on user goals and tasks Content types Definitions and templates used to deliver consistent, complete content Taxonomy & metadata Classification schemes that help IBM manage and reuse its content and customers find it Tagging & labels Consistent labeling and tagging of content, by IBM and its clients Search Methods to ensure that content and structures are optimized for search Information Model Abstract model to which teams add unique offering details to create concrete, consistent IA + = Models in IA We use these architectural models: … to help us define and apply: … to deliver high-value content in an information experience that enables client success.@aames
  • 13. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Process and pre-work @aames
  • 14. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit The information architecture process 14 design analyze develop deploy maintain plan § Development plans § User needs § Business strategy § Information & UX strategy § Deep understanding of company and customers § Scenarios § Information requirements § High-level architecture § Inputs to information and quality plans § Infrastructure and other requirements § Detailed architecture § Education § Design validation and design iterations § Additional plan inputs § User validation data and analysis § Draft of next-release IA § User validation data and analysis § Usage stats and trend analysis § Customer feedback § Issue resolution § Further refined draft of next- release IA § Usage stats and trend analysis § Customer feedback § Issue resolution § Requirements for next release § High-level IA for next release @aames
  • 15. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 15 Identifying and prioritizing requirements Identifying requirements involves scientific research, followed by artful analysis. The process looks like this: 1. Gather business data 2. Gather client data 3. Gather the current content ecosystem 4. Gather history 5. Gather political landscape 6. Extract requirements from data 7. Prioritize requirements After completing this task, you will have: § A deep, nuanced understanding of business strategy, market drivers, client needs, why things are the way they are, and what it will take to drive change in the current climate § A list of business and user requirements for your information architecture to address >>> > > @aames
  • 16. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 16 Where requirements come from Portfolio technical strategy Marketing Product management DevelopmentInformation team Manager Customers Corporate strategy Division Portfolio business strategy Information architect Interaction design Industry trends @aames
  • 17. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 17 Developing scenarios Before you can define an architecture, you have to know what your users need: 1. Define your users 2. Define their goals, tasks, and motives 3. Identify the content that would be high- value to them After completing this task, you will have a collection of scenarios that define: § Who your clients are—buyers, users, etc. § What they already know § What they need to know § Why they need to know it >>> > > @aames
  • 18. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Content Presentation Delivery Navigation User Message Motivation Form/format Layout Where When Organization Structure Users: The center of the content experience Bring their perceptions and judgments Access the target of their motivation—content – through layers of experience If well designed, enable user-content interaction If poorly designed, inhibit user-content interaction Effective content experience 18
  • 19. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Creating and applying models
  • 20. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 20 IA & models IA is scientific: It requires us to follow repeatable processes It requires us to clearly define metrics It requires us to define and validate theories It requires us to identify variables It requires us to know about things like human cognition IA is art: We develop a deep understanding of the human experience We create meaning We create simplicity and elegance out of complexity and chaos Models help IAs blend science and art to achieve measurable results: They help us follow the scientific method by defining and refining theories until we achieve predictable, consistent results They help us ask the right questions, discover patterns, and tolerate the ambiguity that comes from dealing with people They help us discover solutions by applying concepts in a systematic manner nuanced by a vision for the human experience—NOT by following rules and recipes @aames
  • 21. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 21 Models, defined: an example Model house §A blueprint that shows the ideal state of the whole and ideal relationships between constituent components §A pattern for perfection §A representation of what’s possible if price were no object Real house § Might differ from the model— sometimes significantly—but is still recognizable as a home § Purpose, form, and structure are the same § Details may vary as a result of the humans involved @aames
  • 22. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 22 Lessons about models from our model home example Models are a pattern, not a rule Patterns are always adapted to the “fabric” with which you’re working Fundamental purpose, form, and structure remain the same Details may vary according to human need or circumstances FNote: If your circumstances include things like “the developer says so” or “but we’ve always done it this way,” we strongly encourage you to roll up your sleeves and fight for your user! Sometimes details are a big deal Which house would you want to live in? Good architects leverage the flexibility of the model only in ways that benefit the humans involved (example: “I just don’t like windows” isn’t a reason to break from the model) Good architects always balance business issues (cost, time, etc.) with user issues (wants and needs) What’s boring in neighborhoods can be good for user experiences Consistency is predictability Consistency leads to recognizable brands and strong identity @aames
  • 23. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 23 Why models? Models help businesses think Think, not cut-and-paste For many larger organizations, it’s too expensive to develop templates for every possible design context Templates are hard-coded and can’t handle more than cut-and-paste design work Scalability and adaptability Abstract models scale with increases in complexity, number and diversity of users Models are abstract, and as a result, ensure the information architecture remains above the fray of trends and change Abstract models can be adapted to handle technological innovation, changes in strategy, flux in a product portfolio, new business processes, and evolution in the market Focus on high-value user interactions Abstract models force an organization to identify, prioritize, and design for the user interactions that are critical to business success Technology, marketing strategies, and brand identity may evolve— core user interactions are more stable Consistency, with room for creativity Abstract models can be used to align all aspects of a content experience Abstract models drive focus on predictable user interactions while allowing for interesting change at the presentation level @aames
  • 24. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 24 Why models? Models help users think What users want to think about Users want to think about their primary goals and tasks Users do not want to spend time on figuring out how to use our frameworks to achieve their goals and tasks Our job is to eliminate cognitive load and help users focus mental space on what’s really important to them Toward an invisible architecture Good abstract models are based on cognitive science and user-centered design principles As such, abstract models help us deliver an information architecture that users don’t have to think about Abstract models help our users maintain focus the things they really care about— not navigating our framework Abstract models make obvious things like: What to do next Where to go next Whether the information answers the question How to find more or different information that will answer the question Thanks to Steve Krug and his first law of usability— “Don't make me think!” @aames
  • 25. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 25 Why models? Models help communicators think Abstract models remove the guesswork for technical communicators Abstract models provide a framework for teams to think through things like: Access Delivery Content Presentation Currency Maintenance Invaluable for teams new to information architecture or who lack a dedicated information architect on their projects Abstract models encapsulate lots of helpful theory The best abstract models reflect current theory and research into human cognition, user information-seeking and processing behaviors, and so on This enables teams to focus less on theory and more on the specifics of their target users and their needs, and how best to apply the models in their design contexts Teams learn by experience, with a solid foundation @aames
  • 26. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 26 Why models? Models help IAs think Abstract models encourage an IA to: Keep user needs and business strategy in the forefront of her thinking Take risks and be creative in an intelligent, calculated, data- centered, purpose-driven manner Maintain the integrity of the overarching experience—that is, ensure that the fundamental purpose, form, and structure of the information experience remain the same Tailor an information experience to meet specific user needs or business challenges—that is, allow freedom in the details as dictated by user need Avoid confining an information experience to template boundaries Keep the focus on outcomes—results, not rules @aames
  • 27. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 27 Key types of models Use Model Content Model Access Model Information Model Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and how they’ll use it. Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and metadata. Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies. Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project- specific, and user-centered information architecture @aames
  • 28. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 28 Developing a Use Model: Steps 1. Develop use scenarios. Describe user interactions with the system. Develop a scenario for each type of system/subsystem in the product, offering, or solution. List the high-value tasks (vs. system features). 2. Develop information-use scenarios. Describe the ideal user interaction with content. Ensure that information scenarios follow use scenarios. 3. Validate the model. @aames
  • 29. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 29 Developing a Use Model: Result A standard set of scenarios that describe an optimal user experience with information A standard set of user information requirements for specific product or system contexts A document describing how the use model can be applied to produce an offering-specific information architecture @aames
  • 30. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 1. Leverage your use model to determine users’ information needs: The subjects and atomic units of information your users will need The best ways to structure and combine the information The best presentation style and media to communicate the information The deliverable (or delivery vehicle) that will work best 2. Standardize common subjects of information in an enterprise-level taxonomy (a structured collection of terms that describe what the information is about). 3. Standardize your list of required atomic units of information—the information objects that you can’t break down into smaller pieces without making them meaningless. 4. Define standard information deliverables and delivery vehicles, specifying how to combine atomic units of information and common subjects to deliver understandable, stand-alone information products that humans will see and touch. 5. Develop presentation templates, indicating how to use media to present the information deliverables for human consumption. 6. Validate your model. 30 Developing a Content Model: Steps @aames
  • 31. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 31 Developing a Content Model: Result A document describing required and optional deliverables (collections of information atoms), how they relate to one another and are used and delivered, and how the content model can be applied to produce an offering-specific information architecture A collection of templates—one for each deliverable—describing the required and optional elements of each @aames
  • 32. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 32 Developing an Access Model: Steps 1. Leverage your use model to determine how users are most likely to access (or need to access) your content to: Searching for and finding relevant information Following leads when searching Scanning an information space to develop a sense of its contents Staying informed about updates or new content Evaluating information for relevance Using information to achieve a goal 2. Define the overarching strategy for user access to information. 3. Depict how a collection of access methods work together to accommodate the wide range of user behaviors when navigating to and within an information space. 4. Validate your model. @aames
  • 33. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit A document describing the overall access strategy, how multiple access methods work together, and the details about how specific areas of access can be supported, as well as how the content model can be applied to produce an offering-specific information architecture Any technology, business requirements, and user needs that emerge from the detailed access-related patterns, schemes, and strategies 33 Developing an Access Model: Result @aames
  • 34. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 34 Developing an Information Model: Steps 1. Start with the output of the other three modeling processes—use each of the other models as input to the Information Model. 2. Define a high-level information architecture that defines the entire information strategy and experience. 3. Define one or more low-level information architectures that are focused on the details of specific pieces of the total information solution. 4. Validate your model. @aames
  • 35. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 35 Developing an Information Model: Result A written description of an information strategy—that is, a document describing the abstract model that includes: How all dimensions of the information experience fit together How content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to the abstract information model in order to produce a concrete, project-specific, and user-centered information architecture @aames
  • 36. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 36 Applying models Apply the models to create a detailed, prioritized, information architecture for a specific product (or release): 1. Develop the high-level design 2. Develop the product- or release-specific Use Model 3. Consider the Content Model to determine what content collections should be provided and how the content will be presented 4. Consider the Access Model to determine how users will find the content After completing this task, you will have: A detailed information architecture defining: § What content will be provided § Where/when in the users’ task flow it will be provided § How the content will be delivered § How the content will be presented § How users will find the content § Priorities for the content § Mockups and designs for specific, high-focus content components, such as “Welcome” >>> > > @aames
  • 37. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 37 Applying your models, part 1 Models have value when applied systematically: They enable IAs to develop usable architectures that in turn make it easy for users to accomplish their goals with your product, project, solution or other kind of offering. They provide a consistent information experience across multiple products, product families, or enterprises—even if information in various places are developed by different writers and architects, or if offerings have different product strategies or goals. They also help writing teams by providing a framework for discovering important details such as: The order of user tasks Which tasks to emphasize (and not) The appropriate level of detail to include The type of information to provide (expertise vs. “click this”) The potential for gaps between tasks or across components or products Content to include in any examples or samples @aames
  • 38. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 38 Applying your models, part 2 It’s important to validate across several different instances of the applied model to ensure that the model works when instantiated with various types of products or systems. The key to applying the models is in the process of developing your offering-specific information architecture. 38 @aames
  • 39. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Questions? Comments? 39 @aames
  • 40. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit References and resources @aames
  • 41. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 41 References Building a Content Strategy Ecosystem, LavaCon Unified Content Strategy Workshop, April 2013: http://slidesha.re/17S782A (or http://www.slideshare.net/aames/creating-a-content-strategy-ecosystem) Strategic Information Architecture Boot Camp, STC Summit, May 2013: http://slidesha.re/1t4o7eu (or http://www.slideshare.net/akriley/stc2013-strategic-iacertcourseallchartsamesriley) @aames
  • 42. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 42 Additional resources Online resources: The Society for Technical Communication—http://www.stc.org Intercom magazine’s January 2012 issue—a special edition devoted to information architecture! Boxes and Arrows—http://www.boxesandarrows.com The Information Architecture Institute—http://iainstitute.org Print resources: James Kalbach. “Designing for Information Foragers: A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking on the World Wide Web.” Internetworking, Internet Technical Group newsletter. 27 January 2001. Available at http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec00/article_information_foragers.html. William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler. Universal Principles of Design. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers. (ISBN 978-1592535873) Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. (ISBN 978-0596527341) Jeffrey Rubin and Dan Chisnell. Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, Inc. (ISBN 978-0470185483) Richard Saul Wurman. Peter Bradford, ed. Information Architects. New York: Graphis. (ISBN 978- 1888001389) @aames
  • 43. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Backup Model-development details @aames
  • 44. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project- specific, and user-centered information architecture 44 Key types of models Content Model Access Model Information Model Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and how they’ll use it. Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and metadata. Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies. Use Model @aames
  • 45. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 45 Developing a Use Model, part 1 1. Develop use scenarios Describe user interactions with the system. Develop a scenario for each type of system/subsystem in offering/solution. Be sure the scenarios provide insight into questions such as: Who are the users? What are their goals? What’s the purpose of the product, system or solution? What tasks will users do with the product? (Be sure to decompose high-level tasks into lower-level tasks or procedures. Identify prerequisite tasks and any dependencies for successful task completion.) Which tasks are the high-value ones necessary for achieving a broader goal, and which ones are tasks merely required as a result of product design or system features? @aames
  • 46. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 46 Developing a Use Model, part 2 2. Develop information-use scenarios Describe the ideal user interaction with content. Ensure that information scenarios follow use scenarios. Be sure the scenarios provide insight into questions such as: What information do users need to complete the tasks defined in the product- or system-usage scenarios, and at what points during product use is the information needed? What information do users need to achieve their broader business or personal objectives? How will users experience or interact with that information, both for their own goals and as required by product or system tasks? Be sure to address this question for each of the necessary tasks you have defined in your product or system lifecycle. How close to the product or system user interface does the information need to be? Is it the interface? Or does it support the interface? Is it task-disruptive to take the user away from the primary product or system interface to access the information they need? @aames
  • 47. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 47 Developing a Use Model, part 3 3. Validate the model. Socialize it. Conduct reviews with members of your IA community. Validate with customers, in several concrete contexts, if possible. @aames
  • 48. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project- specific, and user-centered information architecture 48 Key types of models Use Model Access Model Information Model Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and how they’ll use it. Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and metadata. Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies. Content Model @aames
  • 49. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 49 Developing a Content Model, part 1 1. Leverage your use model to determine users’ information needs: The subjects and atomic units of information your users will need The best ways to structure and combine these building blocks of information to reflect the user’s task flow The best presentation style and media to communicate this information to users given their skills and the tasks they’re trying to accomplish, such as, interaction or information, text or images, static images or moving images, audio, or combinations of these The deliverable (or delivery vehicle) that will work best, such as, product- or system-embedded information, topics and multimedia in a hypertext environment, animation with voice- over, podcast @aames
  • 50. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 50 Developing a Content Model, part 2 2. Standardize common subjects of information, or a common collection of terms that describe what the information is about, in an enterprise-level taxonomy. 3. Standardize your list of required atomic units of information, or the information objects that you can’t break down into smaller pieces without making them meaningless. Hint: Consider DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and its information types (concept, task, and so on) and specializations. @aames
  • 51. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 51 Developing a Content Model, part 3 4. Define standard information deliverables and delivery vehicles, or how you combine atomic units of information and common subjects to deliver understandable, stand-alone information products that humans will see and touch. 5. Develop presentation templates, or how you will use media to present the information deliverables for human consumption. Consider the templates necessary to ensure an integrated, consistent user experience. Develop new templates by starting with those that are most impactful to your user’s information experience or that support business priorities. @aames
  • 52. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 52 Developing a Content Model, part 4 6. Validate your model. Socialize it. Conduct reviews with members of the enterprise-wide IA community. Validate with customers, in several concrete content contexts, if possible. @aames
  • 53. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project- specific, and user-centered information architecture 53 Key types of models Use Model Content Model Information Model Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and how they’ll use it. Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and metadata. Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies. Access Model @aames
  • 54. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit Developing an Access Model, part 1 Stay informed about updates or new content How will you ensure that users have the most up-to-date content? How will you communicate the availability of fresh or refreshed content? Evaluate information for relevance How will you help users discover the value of your information as it relates to their goals and needs? What techniques will you use to distinguish information objects from one another? Will you allow users to apply their own metadata to help themselves and others with differentiation? Use information to achieve a goal What techniques will you use for in-page or in- task wayfinding and discovery? Will you allow users to customize the information or the space for their own use, and if so, how? Search for and finding relevant information How do your chosen approaches for information delivery impact its findability? What are the likely entry points into your information architecture—marketing pages, out-of-box materials, Google, “likes” on Facebook? How will your information architecture promote search engine optimization (SEO)? Follow leads when searching How will users find their way through your information space once they’ve found it? Where do your users want or need to go next? How will you enable discovery? Scan an information space to develop a sense of its contents How will you enable users to develop a good mental model of the information within a particular space? How will users self-locate within a navigation hierarchy or other structure? 54 1. Leverage your use model to determine how users are most likely to access (or need to access) your content to: @aames
  • 55. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 55 Developing an Access Model, part 2 2. Define the overarching strategy for user access to information. 3. Depict (with text, images, wireframes and prototypes) how a collection of access methods work together to accommodate the wide range of user behaviors when navigating to and within an information space. Drill down into the user experience and interface associated with specific areas of access, and define things typically associated with IA work like navigation patterns, labeling schemes and linking strategies. 4. Validate your model: Socialize it. Conduct reviews with members of the enterprise-wide IA community. Validate with customers, in several concrete content contexts, if possible. @aames
  • 56. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 56 Key types of models Use Model Content Model Access Model Defines ideal interactions between users and information—what they need, why they need it, what they’re doing when they need it, and how they’ll use it. Defines standard building blocks of content, from the atomic level to larger “deliverables,” including subject, presentation, taxonomy, and metadata. Defines a vision for how users will find your information, including organization, structure, relationships between chunks of information and full deliverables, and a big picture view of navigation strategies. Information Model Defines how all dimensions of the information experience fit together and how content teams can apply product-, solution-, project- or other kinds of offering-specific details to produce a concrete, project- specific, and user-centered information architecture @aames
  • 57. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 57 Developing an Information Model, part 1 1. Start with the output of the other three modeling processes—use each of the other models as input to the Information Model. 2. Define a high-level information architecture that defines the entire information strategy and experience. 3. Define one or more low-level information architectures that are focused on the details of specific pieces of the total information solution. Example: Business strategy or product usability issues might require an information architect to give particular focus to the information strategy in support of a product out-of-box experience—one specific piece within an overarching information architecture. @aames
  • 58. Content Experience Modeling Workshop—2017 STC Summit 58 Developing an Information Model, part 2 4.Validate your model. Socialize it. Conduct reviews with members of the enterprise-wide IA community. Validate with customers, in several concrete content contexts, if possible. @aames