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Principles
of Information Architecture
Class
Calendar
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March
18, 2000
55 Laguna Street
107 Richardson Hall
Get the presentation:
Introduction |
Class 1:
Principles
AM: Introduction
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How did we get here?
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What is information architecture?
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What is an information architect?
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IA platforms and media
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Common IA issues
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Hot sites
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Course methodology
PM: Practical Information Architecture |
March
18, 2000
55 Laguna Street
107 Richardson Hall
Get the presentations:
Alphabet
Soup
Information
Architecture
Top |
Class 2:
Structuring Information
AM: Content Management and Information
Delivery Systems
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Information as data
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Use once, write many
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Alphabet soup: HTML/SGML/XML
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Metadata: information about
information
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Smart Content
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Context models: Learn-Browse-Discover
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Organizing information
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Content hierarchies: LATCH
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Audience analysis and user-profiled
information
PM: Information Architecture
Essentials
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Navigation systems
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Search and push systems
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Controlled vocabulary and labels
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Database-driven Web sites
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Web-based interface design:
using tables, frames, buttons, and basic Javascript
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Prototyping your designs
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April
1, 2000
425
Market Street
Room 809
Get the presentations:
How
We Learn
Creating
Electronic Documentation
Top |
Class 3: User
Assistance
AM: How We Learn
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Information: too much, or not
enough?
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What walks on four legs in the
morning...
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Preferred learning styles
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Designing for the young learner
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Designing for the adult learner
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What's different about web-based
information?
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Is paper documentation dead?
PM: Tell Me / Show Me/ Do It
For Me
The out-of-box experience
Online doc vs. online help
Navigation
Planning context sensitivity
The five building blocks of
context-sensitive online help
Repurposing online source material
Online style considerations
Tutorials
Wizards
Quality assurance
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April
8, 2000
425 Market St.
Room 809
Get the presentations:
Jon's
programs
(Note: files that end in .pl
are perlscript; they can be printed as text)
Robert's
slides and scripts
Top |
Class 4: Knowledge
Management Strategies
AM: Knowledge Systems
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What is a knowledge system?
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Knowledge system architecture
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Internet/intranet knowledge
sites
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Can an e-commerce site be a
knowledge system?
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The "self-feeding" knowledge
base
PM: PERL and Other Scripting
Languages (Robert Hartman/
Jon Hale) |
May
6, 2000
425 Market St.
Room 809
Get the background material:
Sample
project plan
Sample
usability test script
User/Task
Analysis presentation
Human
Factors in GUI Design
Top
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Class
5: Usability
AM: Knowledge Systems (rescheduled
from Class 4)
PM: Human Factors and Usability
Testing |
May
7 - 31, 2000
By arrangement
Top |
Project presentations/submission
Either email your project plan
to Freda (with mock-up of your knowledge site's home page and at least
one more subordinate page), or arrange to meet her and present it in person.
We recommend you give yourself
at least two weeks to complete this project plan.
All
project plans must be either presented or submitted by May 31, 2000.
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