How do I, Eh? IA for an effective UX!

Let's review how to create a more effective design and improved user experience. First we seek to understand the user, content, and context, then we begin to define our IA. How? We ask thoughtful questions and assessing value to those questions. Once we develop a functional understanding, we conduct research, facilitate exercises, and create guiding artifacts. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we will work adaptively to be more strategic.

This presentation helps move beyond theory and identifies the work you and your team can do to be more successful!

Learning Objectives

• Define Information Architecture (IA)
• Understand the impact that IA has on UX and design
• Learn how to create an effective IA or improve existing IA

Target Audience

Project stakeholders, project managers, designers, and developers

Prerequisites

It will help to have a basic understanding of content structures, design, or user experience.

Template Files from the Presentation

Here are the template files that I briefly showed on the IA presentation:

• IA Specifications: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X4GBiET1ESceDtGxa9lbDUtbtH2gC6A9fy1EGq4hsNI/edit?gid=1406245028#gid=1406245028
• IA - Field Structures: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_YUTJiYLGxRh-xuF6WBRQSveoAPXF8RbB4aslAOWIWA/edit?gid=1406245028#gid=1406245028
• IA - Navigation & Page Routes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14yJgUdou5PL0eExpwNHF9ZOAfLlYXxARyXV0iFsGgEk/edit?gid=2074892502#gid=2074892502
• Make Sense of Your Mess (Workbook): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13a43GwWGz2PEMsIxpI8OHWV3rngoVGdgHaLL-kiBvoU/edit?tab=t.0