Information Architecture

Subjects covered:
Hierarchical and faceted classification
Automatic and intellectual indexing
Thesaurus generation
Meta data
Information retrieval and search
Topic maps
Social navigation
Strategy and strategic goals
Scope

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 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 architecures 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.

Forelesninger og øvelser. Gruppeprosjekt, med formativ-iterativ underveisevaluering (gjentatte omganger med underveisveiledning).

Emnet byr kun på et begrenset antall forelesninger og baserer seg i stor grad på selvstudium og et gruppeprosjekt som inkluderer design av et nettsted og/eller applikasjon for mobile enheter med fokus på brukersentrert systemutviklingsmetodikk med etablering av personas og scenarier samt iterativ prototyping. Emnet er kun tilgjengelig for Bachelor i grafisk design.