This document discusses information architecture and interaction design for web design. It explains that information architecture is about organizing content so that users can easily find what they are looking for. Interaction design aims to make systems intuitive to use. The document then discusses site maps, different approaches to structuring information (top-down vs. bottom-up), flexibility in site structures, different types of structures (hierarchical, matrix, organic, sequential), sections and navigation, and the importance of using natural language for users. Formal documentation of site structure is recommended, especially for larger sites.
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Some of the latest works from digitalbr@nd - interactive agency, with short descriptions and stats. Some parts of works were done together with PeopleBrand - sibling advertising agency.
We all know about Information Architect in UX field, but why it's required, why it's important, what is required to design a successful IA, what qualification required to become IA. All topics covered in this presentation.
I have tried to make it as simple as possible to even understandable by any beginner to crack IA interview.
Some of the latest works from digitalbr@nd - interactive agency, with short descriptions and stats. Some parts of works were done together with PeopleBrand - sibling advertising agency.
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Information Architecture: The role of the Information Architect, Collaboration and Communication, Organizing Information, Organizational Challenges, Organizing Web sites parameters and Intranets Creating Cohesive Websites: Conceptual Overview Website Development, Website Design
issues, Conceptual Design, High-Level Design, Indexing the Right Stuff, Grouping Content. Architectural Page Mockups, Design Sketches, Navigation Systems. Searching Systems Good & bad web design, Process of Web Publishing. Phases of Web Site development, enhancing your web-site, submission of website to search engines. Web security issues, security audit of websites, Web effort estimation, Productivity, Measurement, Quality usability and reliability. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications: Introduction, Fundamentals, Requirement Source, Type, ,Notations Tools. Principles Requirements Engineering Activities , Adapting RE Methods to Web Application.
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Information Architecture: The role of the Information Architect, Collaboration and Communication, Organizing Information, Organizational Challenges, Organizing Web sites parameters and Intranets Creating Cohesive Websites: Conceptual Overview Website Development, Website Design
issues, Conceptual Design, High-Level Design, Indexing the Right Stuff, Grouping Content. Architectural Page Mockups, Design Sketches, Navigation Systems. Searching Systems Good & bad web design, Process of Web Publishing. Phases of Web Site development, enhancing your web-site, submission of website to search engines. Web security issues, security audit of websites, Web effort estimation, Productivity, Measurement, Quality usability and reliability. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications: Introduction, Fundamentals, Requirement Source, Type, ,Notations Tools. Principles Requirements Engineering Activities , Adapting RE Methods to Web Application.
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How to create a beautiful intranet design your users will love in five simple steps: brought to life by outstanding intranet design examples from companies including Sony, Travelex, the NHS, Mattress Firm, Piedmont, the NSPCC, and many more.
An effective intranet design is one that is perceived as being of value by both employees and stakeholders. There is a significant amount of planning involved when designing an intranet experience no matter if it is a new build, redesign or new feature. It typically requires cross-department collaboration, management of a multidisciplinary team and implementation, marketing/communication and training plan.
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Information Architecture: The role of the Information Architect, Collaboration and Communication, Organizing Information, Organizational Challenges, Organizing Web sites parameters and Intranets Creating Cohesive Websites: Conceptual Overview Website Development, Website Design
issues, Conceptual Design, High-Level Design, Indexing the Right Stuff, Grouping Content. Architectural Page Mockups, Design Sketches, Navigation Systems. Searching Systems Good & bad web design, Process of Web Publishing. Phases of Web Site development, enhancing your web-site, submission of website to search engines. Web security issues, security audit of websites, Web effort estimation, Productivity, Measurement, Quality usability and reliability. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications: Introduction, Fundamentals, Requirement Source, Type, ,Notations Tools. Principles Requirements Engineering Activities , Adapting RE Methods to Web Application.
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Information Architecture: The role of the Information Architect, Collaboration and Communication, Organizing Information, Organizational Challenges, Organizing Web sites parameters and Intranets Creating Cohesive Websites: Conceptual Overview Website Development, Website Design
issues, Conceptual Design, High-Level Design, Indexing the Right Stuff, Grouping Content. Architectural Page Mockups, Design Sketches, Navigation Systems. Searching Systems Good & bad web design, Process of Web Publishing. Phases of Web Site development, enhancing your web-site, submission of website to search engines. Web security issues, security audit of websites, Web effort estimation, Productivity, Measurement, Quality usability and reliability. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications: Introduction, Fundamentals, Requirement Source, Type, ,Notations Tools. Principles Requirements Engineering Activities , Adapting RE Methods to Web Application.
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Optimizing the information architecture of your website would help in improving the overall user experience. Get the best results with Optimize UX website.
Information architecture for websites and intranetsContent Formula
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A quick introduction to the art and science of information architecture and how we apply it at Content Formula to build effective websites and intranets
Design and usability are critical aspects of software and website development. Quantum Improvements Consulting has experts in Human Factors that can assist in the design of software and websites.
Web UI Design Patterns and best-practices guide from http://www.uxpin.com -- the best online wireframing, UX & product management suite available anywhere.
Intranet designs guaranteed to engage and inspireInteract
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How to create a beautiful intranet design your users will love in five simple steps: brought to life by outstanding intranet design examples from companies including Sony, Travelex, the NHS, Mattress Firm, Piedmont, the NSPCC, and many more.
An effective intranet design is one that is perceived as being of value by both employees and stakeholders. There is a significant amount of planning involved when designing an intranet experience no matter if it is a new build, redesign or new feature. It typically requires cross-department collaboration, management of a multidisciplinary team and implementation, marketing/communication and training plan.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
⢠The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
⢠The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate âany matterâ at âany timeâ under House Rule X.
⢠The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Operation âBlue Starâ is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasnât one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2. The 5 Planes Model
Last session we looked at Functionality.
By now we have used our skills to work
out what weâre building and why weâre
building it.
This session will be looking how weâre
going to organise our information and
how our users will get to it.
3. The Structure Plane
Interaction Design is a software
development term for creating a structured
user experience.
Information Architecture is a way of
designing content so that users find what
theyâre looking for.
4. Interaction Design
You need to design your system to
accommodate and respond to the needs
and demands of the person using it.
It is no longer acceptable to expect users to
adapt to your system.
5. Interaction Design
This is a huge subject area and beyond the
scope of this lecture.
Succinctly Interaction Design aims to make
systems intuitive to use. If a system is
intuitive then users can get on with
whatever they were trying to achieve
without concentrating on how to use your
system.
6. Ease of Use
Itâs important to remember that people will
view your site simply as a part of the Web,
a destination they stop at.
There are fewer new users every day and
people have an expectation of how to use
Web sites.
9. Information Architecture
The word architecture is very important. In
the physical world we understand the
purpose and use of an environment from
clues within its structure.
10. Architecture and the wider
world.
Architecture is not simply about individual
buildings but where the buildings are
placed and how people get around.
If you were dropped in most UK towns, you
should be able to find the main shopping
street and the station very quickly.
11. Information Architecture
The structure of a website should be
designed in such a way that people can
find what they want quickly and without
fuss.
Information architecture is there to help
build the pathways in a manner that is
intuitive and second nature.
12. Site Map
The bottom line of what we are producing is a site map. The
map gives us a specific hierarchical understanding of the
site and where information will be placed within it.
The main aim is to produce a concrete diagram that is
accessible and understandable to as many people as
possible. For a large site, it is also a useful tool for splitting
the site into sections where it is possible to delegate
successive parts.
13. Top Down Approach
The site architecture
is constructed
according to site
objectives and user
needs.
Content
This creates an empty shell into which the content is fitted.
15. How many sections?
The number isnât important, it needs to
make sense to a user.
You can measure the amount of steps to
complete a task or the amount of clicks,
but donât waste peopleâs time.
18. Nodes and structures
A node: any group or piece of information.
Hierarchical structure.
Formalised and common.
Matrix structure, allows
users to traverse the
site along dimensions.
Useful for browsing by
colour or size.
19. Structures
Organic structure.
Good for exploring a set
of topics without obvious
relationships although it
can be confusing for
users.
Sequential
structure. Rare on
the web, more
suited to traditional
media such as
books.
20. Sections
The clothes shop. Home
Page.
Men Women Children
Tops Bottoms Outer
The most important factor to consider is the language you use. You need to
order your information in a way that seems natural to your user.
21. Formal Documentation
We use formal documentation because itâs structure is reasonably intuitive. It is a useful
method of explaining site structure to clients. With larger sites, it means that there is a
specific document detailing each pageâs relationship with every other page allowing for
delegated development.
Editor's Notes
This is an opportunity to recover any aspects that people found difficult last session. Point out that we are moving from the scope section to the structure section of the diagram.
Explain that it is at this point where we cross over from the abstract into the concrete. We are beginning to consider what we are actually building and how it will be presented.
It is also important that students are not put off by the technical sounding names. This is about understanding people, how they work and the way they think.
In the old days, users were expected to learn how to use things. A user will get bored very quickly if they are expected to adapt to your site.
It is worth, at this point playing the interview from Steve Rogers from BBCi. The interview is included on the DVD which comes with Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge. The interview is also available on the web page http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/SteveRogers although the images are small.
As the internet has become ubiquitous, there are more conventions. This means that students should avoid making overcomplicated anti-intuitive interfaces. There will be a deeper discussion on metaphor in the next session.
Discuss that it is important that students become aware of their own habits, trying to understand sites they use frequently and what they like about them or what they think could be improved. The main problem with good design is that one doesnât notice it, itâs simply fit for purpose.
Students should have come across these errors in their use of the internet. Explain that although it is impossible to stop errors from happening, there is a better way to deal with them. Point out that this error message has no way out.
Different server technologies have different solutions but hereâs a link to an apache solution
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/custom404error.html
This error page follows the Neilson Norman groupâs recommendations for a useful error page, including links and a search box.
This site has links to some interesting 404s.
http://www.sendcoffee.com/minorsage/404error.html
Discuss the fact that students will expect different things from different buildings, their relationships and expectations are dictated by the shapes around them. Even if a person is not an architecture aficionado they will be affected by decisions made by architects.
Start a discussion about this idea, try and get students to understand how finding your way around is something that has developed over time. Our society teaches us how to navigate the built environment because of specific rules. You may want to explain that this is not a lecture in architecture and this is as deep as we are going on the subject.
This is also an opportunity for a continuity break, encourage students to discuss how they could adapt these principles to web design.
There is still a situation on the Web where many rules and conventions are still not established. Ask students what conventions they think are there already are
.e.g. Clicking the logo takes you to the home page. HAVING a home page. About us pages and Contact us pages.
Explain to students that many web sites have a page called site map. Though similar in concept, this is a specifically different entity. The site map page on a website demonstrates the structure, making it easier for search engine spiders to index the site correctly. What we are building is a diagram of information flow.
This diagram is reasonably self explanatory, encourage students to ask questions, ask them to explain what is happening. This approach is useful if you donât have much existing content and are starting from scratch.
This approach is useful if there is already content for the site, for example a portfolio site or video archive. Neither approach is better, it is up to the developer to decide which is more suitable. Top down can sometimes cause important content details to be overlooked and bottom up can produce architecture that is not flexible enough for change.
At this point go to http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp and go through the process of booking a flight, you want to get to a page that shows you are at step 2 of 5.
Now go onto http://www.directline-flights.co.uk/flight_search.cfm and try to book the same flight.
The point is that directline holidays charge more for the flight but you can book in much fewer clicks. This is an important example for marketing.
This slide is self explanatory and 1 of 2, we will shortly discuss formal site architecture documentation.
Slide 2 of 2. It is rare that you will be aware in advance that you need to change the site this drastically. The very nature of the medium means that it is constantly changing and updating. It is important that this flexibility is built in.
A node can be a number or an entire library of photographs, by dealing with nodes we can abstract our problems to any collection of data, whatever the size.
Organic structures are useful for entertainment or or to encourage free-form exploration but it can be hard finding your way back to a useful section.
Sequential structures are useful for such things as instructions and step by step tutorials.
Discuss the fact that what may be obvious to the developer may not be so to the user. The structure above would be reasonable for a retail clothing operation but may not be suitable for someone who is looking to buy large amounts of trousers for a work force in a range of sizes. The structure of the site and the language used needs to fit with the user not the site.
This structure is similar to the site diagram in Dreamweaver. It is unlikely that students will go beyond the structure on the left but it is extremely useful if they become aware of the language and tools used. There will be a tutorial session on site structure and site diagrams.