{"id":262,"date":"2015-02-05T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-02-05T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:50:22","slug":"information-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/information-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word:<\/strong> Information Architecture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition: \"<\/strong>The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability.\" - As defined by the <a href=\"http:\/\/iainstitute.org\/en\/learn\/resources\/what_is_ia.php\" target=\"_blank\">Information Architecture Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:\u00a0<\/strong>Information architecture is performed by a variety of practitioners from specialized information architects themselves to more general UX researchers or even more broadly yet, UX\/UI designers. However, and quite obviously, the disciplinary practice pulls\u00a0from a variety of other subjects\u00a0including library science, cognitive psychology, semiotics, cybernetics, discrete mathematics, and yes, even architecture. Information organization is not something that a UX designer should take lightly. Findability is an incredible component of what makes user experience so credible and invaluable to products, companies, and especially users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0It is easy to see how an information architect is extremely important when organizing a site with a plethora of information (think of the nightmare it was to do Amazon's IA). Is there ever a point when a site is too small for IA or IA does not need to be considered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word: Information Architecture Definition: &#8220;The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability.&#8221; &#8211; As defined by the Information Architecture Institute Reference:\u00a0Information architecture is performed by a variety of practitioners from specialized information architects themselves to more general UX researchers or even more broadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26,23],"tags":[83,82,29,8,9],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-management","category-research","category-user-interface","tag-ia","tag-information-architecture","tag-research","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}