Information Architecture

Subjects covered: What is information architecture? Hierarchical and faceted classification Automatic and intellectual indexing Thesaurus generation Meta data Information retrieval and search Navigational strategies in digital media Labels in information architecture Language in information architecture Social navigation Strategy and strategic goals Scope Concept development and documentation

Knowledge:

• The students shall be able to account for different principles and traditions to establish user centered information categories and sort them, and design access structures and navigational devices and search strategies.
• The student shall be able to analyse existing structures based on principles of information retrieval and be able to suggest new information architectures to aid information retrieval.
• The student shall be aware of up-to-date principles and patterns for information architecture on different platforms and know methods to design good user experiences in accordance with strategic goals.
• The student shall know about methods for designing holistic user experiences - across different platforms - to achieve strategic goals.

Skills:

• The student shall be able to utilize knowledge from insight gathering as a foundation for definition of a information architecture in a suggested concept solution.
• The student shall be able to use user centered methods and methods for iterative prototyping to develop and present information architecture for web and mobile.
• The student shall be able to make informed decisions for establishing structure and organization solutions for the content in a conceptualized digital solution.

General competenses:

• The student will through this project - as one of more practical projects - have continued their development as researcher, concept developer and designer.
• The student evolves their knowledge of typical design solutions and terminology and are such continually developing their knowledge of typical genre conventions.

Lectures and exercises. Plus a group project, with weekly supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, and the end result must be documented.

The course can be offered in English for incoming students upon request.