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Book Description
There is no other book that turns web sites inside-out to examine site architecture and how to make it better.
Provides a basic understanding of the practice and principles of Information Architecture.
Shows how to apply these principles, filling a crucial need in the web industry where diverse types of people fill this role.
Written in a light and breezy style with copious illustrations, flowcharts and other graphics. When you build a building, you make a blueprint. When you build a toaster, you create a diagram of its workings. Yet web sites whose complexity far exceeds a toasters are thrown up hastily with barely a thought to how a human is supposed to use them. Information Architecture- Blueprints for the Web will concentrate on teaching the key skills needed to make the complex clear and the complicated simple. It will teach a reader how to develop useful information architecture. And this will result in meaningful and usable web sites.
Christina Wodtke is a passionate proponent of human information architecture. She began her web career by reviewing 3,700 web sites for Snap.com. Next, she became Egreetings.coms first information architect, assembling and training a team to re-architect the web site, developing new systems of way-finding and leading usability testing. Presently, Christina maintains Eleganthack.com, devoted to information architecture, and Gleanings, a newsletter of user-experience issues, and speaks at conferences including Web Design World and Seybold.

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When you build a building, you make a blueprint. When you build a toaster, you create a diagram of its workings. Yet web sites whose complexity far exceeds a toaster's are thrown up hastily with barely a thought to how a human is supposed to use them. Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web will concentrate on teaching the key skills needed to make the complex clear and the complicated simple. It will teach a reader how to develop useful information architecture. And this will result in meaningful and usable web sites.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   57 of 61 people found the following review helpful: Wake up the editor, 29 Aug 2003 By  Per Esmann Jensen - See all my reviews I suppose Wodtke knows everything there is to know about IA, but I not so sure about her book writing skills... Given that she claims that "yes, it's a short book" (false modesty at 350 pages?) it's surprising to notice the number of digressions - into some pretty lame issues, perspectives and tips: - How she got the idea of writing a book. - What the book is not about. - A 30 page discussion of guidelines she does not support. - A comprehensive guide to the pros and cons of different ways to draw people, e.g. stick people. - A note that you need a big notebook or a whiteboard and some markers if you want to do some topic mapping. - A tip that when receiving guests you might break the ice by asking if it was easy to find the way. Actually, I learned quite a few things by reading this book, but I call for the editor to wake up and give Wodtke some decent advise if she decides to go for a follow up. Any half decent editor could take a hundred pages out of this book in an hour, ending up with a much better read.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews