Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Louis Rosenfeld,Peter Morville
Language: English
Published by O'Reilly Media, 2002
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496 pages. Today's web sites have moved far beyond brochureware. They are larger and m ore complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are b usier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site manage rs are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new tec hnologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look li ke a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to na vigate. Well-planned informationarchitecture has never been as essential as it i s now.Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you ho w to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that wor k. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the techn ical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two tog ether.This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chap ters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the inte rconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapt ers to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They 've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-u p approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.A whole new section add resses the opportunities and challenges of practicing information architecture, while another section discusses how that work impacts and is influenced by the b roader organizational context. New case studies provide models for creating ente rprise intranet portals and online communities. Finally, you'll find pointers to. …
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- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
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- Louis Rosenfeld,Peter Morville
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- O'Reilly Media
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- 2002
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- Paperback
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- English
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Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant. He has been instrumental in helping establish the field of information architecture, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within the field. Lou played a leading role in organizing and programming the first three information architecture conferences (both ASIS&T Summits and IA 2000). He also presents and moderates at such venues as CHI, COMDEX, Intranets, and the web design conferences produced by Miller Freeman, C|net and Thunder Lizard. He teaches tutorials as part of the Nielsen Norman Group User Experience Conference.
Peter Morville is President and Founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture and knowledge management consulting firm. From 1994 to 2001, Peter was Chief Executive Officer and a co-owner of Argus Associates, a pioneering information architecture design firm with world-class clients including 3Com, AT&T, Compaq, Ernst & Young, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and the Weather Channel. He also served as Executive Director of the ACIA. Over the past 8 years, Peter has written and spoken extensively about information architecture, business strategy, and knowledge management. He has been interviewed by Business Week, Knowledge Management magazine, MSNBC, and the Wall Street Journal.
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