Information Architecture
One of our goals at Peak Usability is to increase awareness and adoption of good usability and user centred design practices. The following is a list of sites and articles about information architecture that we hope you will find useful.
| Title | Author/Company | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Users Decide First; Move Second | Erik Ojakaar | Article on the issue of fly outs, rollovers, and dropdowns, cascading menus, hierarchical menus. |
| Cascaded Versus Indexed Menu Design | Michael Bernard & Chris Hamblin | Reseach article on the issue of fly outs, cascading menus, hierarchical menus from Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University. |
| Information Architecture Heuristics | Louis Rosenfeld | Information architecture guidelines or heuristics from one of the world's information architecture gurus |
| Card sorting | Usability net | Interesting information architecture guidelines or heuristics from one of the world's information architecture gurus |
| Classic IA Tools (PDF 592K) | Dan Willis | Easy and simple overview of different methods |
| A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design | Jesse James Garrett | Great information about actually documenting your information architecture including downloadable shape libraries |
| Card-Based Classification Evaluation | Donna Maurer | A simple and effective way to test your information architecture early |
