Information architecture essentials - a workshop with Donna Spencer

9. februar 2011

This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice. It will cover a wide range of IA issues, including an understanding of how it fits into a project, fundamental skills and knowledge required for IA work and current IA issues. It will be theoretical and practical and allow you to immediately apply ideas to your projects.

Donna Spencers bokMeld deg på før fredag 21. januar og få Donna Spencers bok ”A Practical Guide to Information Architecture” gratis!

Program committee:
BITS (The special interest group for user friendly IT-systems) Bente Meen - Halogen, Frode Eika Sandnes - Høgskolen i Oslo, Sigrun Lurås - DNV.

Trenger vi strukturer, da?
Okei, menydebatten tok av. Spennende, for det synliggjør det norske UX-miljøets ulike innfallsvinkler. Mangfold er bra, men menydebatten inneholder fortsatt momenter som jeg ikke klarer å la ligge. Here it goes!
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Target group:
Everybody working with user experience and content, e.g. information architects, interaction designers, librarians, project managers, web editors and journalists. Participants may come from the public sector, private sector, consultancies, or academia.

This workshop will cover:

  • What information architecture is and how it relates to other user experience disciplines
  • Core IA techniques – analysing content, conducting user research, card sorting and more
  • Core IA theories – classification, categorisation, metadata and labelling
  • IA patterns – structures for different types of sites
  • Designing navigation and page layouts
  • Putting it together in an IA project
  • Current issues in IA

The workshop will be at the level of an ‘advanced intro’, covering the basics and also allowing exploration of key challenges and issues. The format is a combination of short lectures, group discussion and hands-on activities. Extensive notes and resources will be provided for further personal exploration.

About Donna
Donna is a freelance information architect, interaction designer and writer. That’s a fancy way of saying she plans how to present the things you see on your computer screen, so that they’re easy to understand, engaging and compelling. Things like the navigation, forms, categories and words on intranets, websites, web applications and business systems.

She’s been doing this professionally since 2002, is a regular speaker at Australian and international events and has just completed her third book - on information architecture.

For more about Donna, see:
Donna’s blog
Articles by Donna at Boxes and arrows blog
Presentations by Donna at Slideshare
About her book “Practical Information Architecture"
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/maadonna

The workshop lasts from 09:00-16:00. Lunch at 11:40-12:40 and coffee breaks at 10:00 og 14:00