A Practical Guide to
Information Architecture

Redesigning a website: Content first

I'm in a situation at the moment where I'm my own client - I have a little spare time, and a new logo, so it is time to redesign my business website.

How did I get started?

[This is an answer to a question asked by an attendee at a information architecture webinar I presented for ASIS&T in January 2011 (slides: Information architecture intro). ]

Have your questions answered in person at my IA workshop, London 27 Jan 2011

Examples of great corporate IA

[This is an answer to a question asked by an attendee at a information architecture webinar I presented for ASIS&T in January 2011 (slides: Information architecture intro). ]

Have your questions answered in person at my IA workshop, London 27 Jan 2011

Question: Content that falls into more than one place

[This is an answer to a question asked by an attendee at a information architecture webinar I presented for ASIS&T in January 2011 (slides: Information architecture intro). ]

IA workshops - London and Oslo

I'm teaching two IA workshops in Europe in the next few weeks.

• Thursday 27 Jan. London Information architecture workshop
• Wednesday 9 Feb. Norway information architecture workshop

Both workshops cover much of the content in the book, and give you the chance to practice the skills, discuss issues and ask questions, instead of just reading about it.

I hope to see you there!

New to IA? Start with these articles

There are a lot of articles about information architecture (and things related to an IA project). Here are some of the best to get you started:

• Setting project goals
• User research
• Recruiting for user research
• Analysing user research

Deriving an IA from an AdWords campaign

I did a really fun piece of work today with a client - something I've never done before. We derived an information architecture directly from a Google AdWords campaign.

Organization schemes - virtual seminar

On September 16, I'll be giving a virtual seminar for the awesome folks at User Interface Engineering. It's all about different types of organization scheme and how to choose the best for your content.

Here's a sneak preview, looking at one of my least favourite organization schemes.

Woot! A site about IA

So here I am, in the middle of documenting an IA for a client intranet project, and I find out that my site is ready to release, as soon as I write an intro for it.

The timing was perfect - as I was documenting this IA for my client I was thinking 'oh, I wish I had included that in the book', 'I really should have elaborated on this more'. Of course, the same was happening while I was working on this project - doing the user research, running a card sort, drafting the actual IA. I kept thinking about little things I would have liked to say more about and the tips I forgot.