Information Architecture Workshop, Wed 13 April 2005

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The Information Architecture building blocks

• What is a classification system?
• What are the parts of a successful IA strategy?
• What are the skills and practices you need to develop in your teams?
• Where does IA fit in with design, technology, business and marketing?

We will discuss what working methods to use, and how to get your teams
to integrate these with the methodologies they already use.

• Which methods should I be using?
• Top down & bottom up IA.
• Really effective ways to do user testing.
• The secrets of doing a content inventory.
• Deliverables: wireframes & sitemaps, and why you might not need them.
• Methods that work in the enterprise

Understand various classification approaches, and their pros and cons

• Hierarchical classification
• Faceted classification
• Combining classification systems

We will discuss some recurring problems to be solved in IA, by reviewing some of the cases submitted beforehand by participants.
Examples could include :

• problems with decision making about the organization of the homepage,
• problems with figuring out how to organize complex information,
• problems with understanding whether users can find the information they need,
• problems with internal metadata versus client-facing metadata
• ...

• Enterprise IA challenges
• Bringing down the information silos.
• IA and its role in the enterprise
• Enterprise-wide information architectures vs. local information architectures
  

Information architecture is a relatively new discipline. This is an overview of the latest thinking and some future directions in the field.

• New developments in IA.
• Global IA
• IA as a discipline.