Information Design

Information Architecture is more than just creating navigation for websites. Write a post for the class blog, talking about how as an Interaction Designer, you have participated in the process of Information Architecture. If you haven’t ever actually done IA, you have experienced it. Think about a site that has a lot of complicated content and how you experienced that. How is IA different from Interaction Design? How is it supportive of the goals of IXD? How do they work together to create good user experiences?

• Information Architecture experience
  by DeeDee Kwon
  Information architecture is the process of structuring components, which clearly describes them and creates ways for people to understand and satisfy them effectively. As an…
• Application of IA in different touchpoints
  by Jasmine Sun
  Imagine that when people go to the supermarket for shopping, they must expect clear guide signs, so that they can quickly find the areas they…
• The indispensability of IA
  by Elena Wang
  Information architecture has an indispensable position in interaction design. The first thing we learned in the system course last semester was Information architecture. Information architecture…
• The importance of IA
  by Tai Hao
  Information architecture is the practice of determining the arrangement of portions of something to be understandable. There are five types of organizing information in IA,…
• IA and Interaction Design
  by Vincent Chen
  Information Architecture is very different from the Architecture we usually know. However, it has a strong connection with interaction design. As a student who majors…
• Can’t Live without IA
  by Hermione Hu
  Working as an interaction designer, I see IA as one of the most important parts of the design process. When I first learned IA in…
• Why IA and Interaction Design are Inseperable
  by Mengyao Xiu
  One of the main goals of interaction design is helping users get somewhere to achieve their goals easily and efficiently. As interaction designers, we aim…
• Information Design
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  As a student studying Interaction Design, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to create my own information architecture, but every person on the web has…
• Information Architecture for IXD project
  by Anh Truong
  One of my first encounters with Information Architecture, to be more exact is the first encounter I actually recognized that is my first official UX…
• My understanding of IA in IxD
  by Betty Deng
  I think information architecture is a kind of mindset or a pattern. It also supports interaction design and exists in interaction design. IA is one…
• IA & IxD
  by Zijie Zhou
  Richard Saul Wurman used five words to explain the tools for information architecture in the video “The Five Types of Organizing Information” which are Location,…
• The Need for Information Architecture
  by Philip Joo
  The importance of Information Architecture is described by Richard Saul Wurman as a way of “creating of systemic, structural, and orderly principles to make something…
• Quick and Dirty
  by Elaine Choi
  As an Interaction Design student, I’ve learned to appreciate the exhilerating practice of rapid iteration. There is something so fun about producing work as quickly…
• How “Candy Sorting” Helped Me Understand IA
  by Ted Huang
  Words like “data” and “system” frighten me: whenever I see these two words, I feel like they have to do with complex materials and information…
• How an Interaction Designer Process of Information Architecture
  by Lylyna Heng
  What is Information Architecture? Information architecture is the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable. Information Architecture is the…
• IA is Crucial to IXD
  by Brian Zhao
  The biggest difference between information architecture and interaction design is that information architecture focuses on making complex clear by arranging information while interaction design focuses…
• IA in IxD
  by Jonahtan Rabago
  As an interaction designer, I have participated in the process of Informational Architecture. For example, I have used task and user flows, concept and site…
• A little UI here a little UX there
  by Corey Rossi
  One of the first things I learned about Interaction Design was about Information Architecture. We had started to understand it by using index cards marked…
• Organizing concepts early in the design process using IA
  by Noah Ahrens
  Interaction Designers are very different from graphic designers as they focus their intentions for the design on user experiences interacting with the product or software….
• Sitemap and IA – How Interaction designers become good at IA
  by Amanda Liu
  Information architects work with “the intention to inform“, trying to find a good balance among content, users, and context of use. Often times, information architects…
• IA in BestBuy
  by John Cho
  Interaction Design features a direction to improve a user’s experience through graphics, such as buttons and micro-interactions. On the contrary, Information Architecture focuses on defining…
• Organize information into Information architecture
  by Betty Li
  A tidy and orderly room will make us feel that everything is under control; a room filled with things randomly will make us feel that…