Post by account_disabled on Dec 13, 2023 23:45:39 GMT -5
Information architecture is the semantic structure and organization of digital inventories. “Information architecture is the semantic structure and organization of digital inventories.” We are talking about digital inventories , not texts, because a site is not made up solely of texts, but also of images, videos, audio files, PDF documents. All this constitutes the contents of the site, its digital inventory. This inventory must be structured semantically and organized so that the user is able to find the information he is looking for on the site. There are those who have defined information architecture as a mental attitude . And he's right.
When creating a site, the first step is to put yourself on the user's side: how will they be able to find what they are looking for? How to relate the various pages and sections of the site to each other? More properly, perhaps, we need to talk about the architecture of understanding . The user must understand where he is, what he is reading, what he should expect and how to move. Principles of information architecture Domain : it is the starting point, under which to place the sections of the site and the various files. Sections/Categories : represent the main organization of the contents. Pages : are web documents Phone Number Data written in one of various languages (XHTML, HTML, PHP, ASP, etc.). Media : in this group we bring together the various files such as images, videos, PDFs, audio files, etc.
The first thing to think about is content hierarchy : establishing priority levels between pages. In blogs, for example, the highest level is represented by the home page, then categories are created to organize the articles based on the topics covered and monthly archives to bring them together in chronological order. To these are added the information pages. How to create an effective information architecture There are several ways to organize the contents of a site. Let's take a book website as an example: how to structure the contents inside? Books can be cataloged by: literary genre: adventure, biographies, horror, etc. author: Camilleri, Matheson, McCarthy, Lansdale, etc. country: Italian, English, American, Chinese authors, etc. historical period: books from antiquity, from the 13th century, from the 17th century, etc.
When creating a site, the first step is to put yourself on the user's side: how will they be able to find what they are looking for? How to relate the various pages and sections of the site to each other? More properly, perhaps, we need to talk about the architecture of understanding . The user must understand where he is, what he is reading, what he should expect and how to move. Principles of information architecture Domain : it is the starting point, under which to place the sections of the site and the various files. Sections/Categories : represent the main organization of the contents. Pages : are web documents Phone Number Data written in one of various languages (XHTML, HTML, PHP, ASP, etc.). Media : in this group we bring together the various files such as images, videos, PDFs, audio files, etc.
The first thing to think about is content hierarchy : establishing priority levels between pages. In blogs, for example, the highest level is represented by the home page, then categories are created to organize the articles based on the topics covered and monthly archives to bring them together in chronological order. To these are added the information pages. How to create an effective information architecture There are several ways to organize the contents of a site. Let's take a book website as an example: how to structure the contents inside? Books can be cataloged by: literary genre: adventure, biographies, horror, etc. author: Camilleri, Matheson, McCarthy, Lansdale, etc. country: Italian, English, American, Chinese authors, etc. historical period: books from antiquity, from the 13th century, from the 17th century, etc.