Presentation given at UXCampBrighton 2014. #uxcb2014. The 5 minute presentation on ways of organising things was followed with a card sort.

1. Yippee-IA
All you need to know about
Information Architecture in 5 minutes
@chrishow
#uxcb14
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2. A definition
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART & SCIENCE OF
ORGANISING AND LABELLING WEBSITES TO SUPPORT
TASK COMPLETION AND INTUITIVE ACCESS TO CONTENT
“Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they
came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the
site behaves as the visitor expects.
Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and
programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was
created to serve.
It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely,
but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman (Founder of A List Apart)

3. There are only 5 ways to organise things
"An information architect is the individual who
organises the patterns inherent in data,
making the complex clear.”
– Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety (1976).
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4. There are only 5 ways to organise things
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy
Random is not a way of organising things.
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5. Location
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6. Location
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7. Location
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8. Alphabet
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9. Alphabet
Image credit: Steve Emmanuel, University of Brighton Graduate Show 2005

10. Alphabet
Image credit: Silver Spoon cookboook

11. Time
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12. Time
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13. Time
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14. Time
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15. Category
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16. Category
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17. Category
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18. Hierarchy
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19. Hierarchy
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20. Hierarchy
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21. Mixing them up
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22. Less intuitive ways to organise a record store
Where the record was recorded
By the singer’s family name
When the record was released
The emotions the music provokes
BPM of the fastest tune
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy
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23. Your turn to help me
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy

24. Yippee-IA
Congratulations. You are now an
Information Architect.
@chrishow
#uxcb14