- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Part I: Introducing Information Architecture
- Chapter 1. Defining Information Architecture
- Section 1.1. A Definition
- Section 1.2. Tablets, Scrolls, Books, and Libraries
- Section 1.3. Explaining IA to Others
- Section 1.4. What Isn t Information Architecture?
- Section 1.5. Why Information Architecture Matters
- Section 1.6. Bringing Our Work to Life
- Chapter 2. Practicing Information Architecture
- Section 2.1. Do We Need Information Architects?
- Section 2.2. Who s Qualified to Practice Information Architecture?
- Section 2.3. Information Architecture Specialists
- Section 2.4. Practicing Information Architecture in the Real World
- Section 2.5. What Lies Ahead
- Chapter 3. User Needs and Behaviors
- Section 3.1. The Too-Simple Information Model
- Section 3.2. Information Needs
- Section 3.3. Information-Seeking Behaviors
- Section 3.4. Learning About Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors
- Part II: Basic Principles of Information Architecture
- Chapter 4. The Anatomy of an Information Architecture
- Section 4.1. Visualizing Information Architecture
- Section 4.2. Information Architecture Components
- Chapter 5. Organization Systems
- Section 5.1. Challenges of Organizing Information
- Section 5.2. Organizing Web Sites and Intranets
- Section 5.3. Organization Schemes
- Section 5.4. Organization Structures
- Section 5.5. Social Classification
- Section 5.6. Creating Cohesive Organization Systems
- Chapter 6. Labeling Systems
- Section 6.1. Why You Should Care About Labeling
- Section 6.2. Varieties of Labels
- Section 6.3. Designing Labels
- Chapter 7. Navigation Systems
- Section 7.1. Types of Navigation Systems
- Section 7.2. Gray Matters
- Section 7.3. Browser Navigation Features
- Section 7.4. Building Context
- Section 7.5. Improving Flexibility
- Section 7.6. Embedded Navigation Systems
- Section 7.7. Supplemental Navigation Systems
- Section 7.8. Advanced Navigation Approaches
- Chapter 8. Search Systems
- Section 8.1. Does Your Site Need Search?
- Section 8.2. Search System Anatomy
- Section 8.3. Search Is Not an IT Thing
- Section 8.4. Choosing What to Search
- Section 8.5. Search Algorithms
- Section 8.6. Query Builders
- Section 8.7. Presenting Results
- Section 8.8. Designing the Search Interface
- Section 8.9. Where to Learn More
- Chapter 9. Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata
- Section 9.1. Metadata
- Section 9.2. Controlled Vocabularies
- Section 9.3. Technical Lingo
- Section 9.4. A Thesaurus in Action
- Section 9.5. Types of Thesauri
- Section 9.6. Thesaurus Standards
- Section 9.7. Semantic Relationships
- Section 9.8. Preferred Terms
- Section 9.9. Polyhierarchy
- Section 9.10. Faceted Classification
- Part III: Process and Methodology
- Chapter 10. Research
- Section 10.1. Process Overview
- Section 10.2. A Research Framework
- Section 10.3. Context
- Section 10.4. Content
- Section 10.5. Users
- Section 10.6. Participant Definition and Recruiting
- Section 10.7. User Research Sessions
- Section 10.8. In Defense of Research
- Chapter 11. Strategy
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