A one-hour class on understanding information architecture

1. !
understanding
!information architecture
Presented at Beyond The Edge 2014 by Dan Klyn

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3. 1998
2002
2006

4. 2000
2002

6. http://www.kickerstudio.com/2008/12/the-disciplines-of-user-experience/

11. 7.1a Store Locator
Search Results
no
no
7.1b Store Locator
Search - No Results
10.0 Email Sign-Up
yes
7.0 Store Locator
Search
8.7 More In Stores
no
Valid Entry? Matched
Location(s)? yes
Valid Entry?
yes
10.0.1 Email Sign-Up
Confirmation
7.2 Store Detail

16. THE DESIGN OF
LARGE SCALE
WEBSITES
Information Architecture for the WWWW, 1998 - 2006

17. ORGANIZING THE INFO
IN THE WEBSITE
“DOING THE NAVIGATION”
Lots of people, 1998 - 2010

18. STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
OF MEANING
ACROSS CONTEXTS
Jorge Arango, 2013

19. WHERE IS THE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE?

20. KLYN’S MODEL®
FOR UNDERSTANDING
THE INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE "
OF ANYTHING

21. Ontology!
Particular meaning.
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Taxonomy!
Arrangement of the parts.
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Choreography!
Rules for interaction among the parts.
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22. ANY ARCHITECTURE MAY BE
DESCRIBED AS A SITUATED
ONTOLOGY
- Me (Just Now)

23. Image pilfered from @inkblurt’s tweetstream

28. particularly
^
A SITUATED ONTOLOGY
“Fish In The World”
“Fish To Certain Roman Catholics In A Particular Region”

29. WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY PANTS?

30. WHAT DO WE SAY WHEN WE MEAN UNDERWEAR?

31. ONTOLOGY: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY APP STORE?

32. …HOW ABOUT HERE?

36. First, the taking in of scattered particulars
under one Idea, so that everyone
understands what is being talked about.
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Second, the separation of the Idea into
parts, by dividing it at the joints,
as nature directs, not breaking any limb
in half as a bad carver might.
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-- Plato, Phaedrus
(Notes on the Synthesis of Form by C. Alexander)

39. Ontology!
Particular meaning.
!
Taxonomy!
Arrangement of the parts.
!
Choreography!
Rules for interaction among the parts.
!

40. The process or system of describing the way in
which different living things are related
by putting them in groups.

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/emperley3/204872172/in/photolist-7AJhEB-8bGXNF-j72mQ-j72pR/

43. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/23110406/

44. http://abbytheIA.com

46. TAXONOMY: ARRANGING MEANING IN CONTEXT

47. TAXONOMY: ARRANGING MEANING IN CONTEXT

49. ONTOLOGY / TAXONOMY TANGO
INTEGRITY OF MEANING ACROSS CONTEXTS
Labels
Connections

50. TAXONOMY: ARRANGING MEANING ACROSS CONTEXTS

51. Ontology!
Particular meaning.
!
Taxonomy!
Arrangement of the parts.
!
Choreography!
Rules for interaction among the parts.
!

57. Ontology
Arrangement
of the parts.
Particular
meaning.!
Rules for interaction
among the
parts.! Choreography

58. ?