Introduction
This session will focus on the kinds of technology you ought to be aware of to do IA. We will provide a set of concepts and the products that instantiate those concepts in the following areas:
- Information Modeling (preparing diagrams and specifications of your IA)
- Presentation (Formatting and laying out web pages)
- Information storage and retrieval (databases and xml structures)
We will attempt to answer questions that come up in real-world scenarios. For example, say I have a project, I hire an IA... they determine that we need to have a faceted classification system for the site's search engine... great, but do I have the technology in place that can accommodate such a classification system? If not, what are those tools? What works best with what solution, etc.
Panelists
- Madonnalisa Chan
- Bob Boiko
- Andrew Hinton
- Nick Finck - Moderator
Presentations
- Search Engines and Taxonomies (43.5 KB, PPT)
- Organic Design (529 KB, PPT)
- Relational Data Modeling, XML Data Modeling, and Object Relational Modeling (HTML)
Additional Resources
Conceptual
- DENIM and SILK
- Post-Its
- OmniGraffle
- ConceptDraw
- MindMapper
- Visio (and templates)
- Storyspace and TinderBox<
- RFFlow
- Graphviz
CardSorting
Design
Usability Testing
Content/Document Management
Information Visualization
Thesaurus/Taxonomy Design
Web Statistics
XML Schema
Additional Resources
- IA Wiki: Diagramming Tools
- IA Wiki: Thesaurus Design Tools
- IA Wiki: Analysis Tools
- IA Wiki: Ontology Tools
- IA Wiki: Card Sorting
- IA Wiki: Affinity Diagramming
- IA Wiki: Deliverables and Artifacts
- IA Wiki: Tools and Forms
- Thesaurus Management Software
- Candy@: IA Tools
- TopicMap.Com: Topic Mapping Tools
- Denise Nangle: Software Tools for Information Architecture
- IA Wiki: Card Sorting
We are not perfect, we know we may have missed a few tools, please let us know.