A practical guide to information architecture (2nd edition)

Free forever!

My distributor decommissioned the book with no notice and gave me back the rights. I don’t really want to write a V3, so I’m offering the V2 free of charge (PDF format only, apologies for no epub): A practical guide to information architecture (PDF, 7.2MB).

If you get value from this free book, you can repay me by buying one of my others (Presenting Design Work, Facilitating Design Thinking Workshops) 🙂

Description

This book is a very practical guide to information architecture and navigation design, for website and intranet design and redesign projects. If you’re a website designer or intranet manager and don’t have a lot of Information Architecture experience, this book will help you feel more confident about your process and decisions.

The 2nd edition of this book has been re-published by UX Mastery, with only minor changes to illustrations. None of the content was updated.

Table of contents

  • Part 1: About information architecture
    • What is information architecture?
    • IA in a project
    • Who does IA ?
    • IA for non web
    • Before you start
  • Part 2: Understanding people
    • Learning about your users
    • Analysing user research
    • Communicating about users
    • How people look for info
    • How people think about categories
  • Part 3:Understanding content
    • Content you have
    • Content you need
    • Communicating about content
    • Content planning
    • Classification schemes
  • Part 4: Designing an information architecture
    • IApatterns
    • Labels and language
    • Howto create IA
    • Testing IA
    • Communicating IA
  • Part 5: Designing navigation
    • Navigation core
    • Navigation extras
    • Designing navigation
    • Testing navigation
    • Communicating navigation