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Kapi’olani Community College Art 155 Information Architecture In-class Presentation Week 6B. :: Calendar. :: Today’s Agenda. Brief Critique To begin we will listen to Brain McQuain and Brian Hogan’s client pitch presentations. Lesson Site maps
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Kapi’olani Community College Art 155 Information Architecture In-class Presentation Week 6B
:: Today’s Agenda • Brief Critique • To begin we will listen to Brain McQuain and Brian Hogan’s client pitch presentations. • Lesson • Site maps • How to create a site map using several different techniques.
:: Example • ONLINE ARTICLE: A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design • http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/
:: Today’s Agenda • Site Maps • Sketching on paper first. • Different visual options. • Using Power Point. • One-on-One meetings: • I will walk around and check in with everyone to provide feedback and answer questions.
:: Assignment due :: 02.26.07 • Site Maps (2) • Purpose/Objective: • To holistically represent a multiple user experience in a visual format. • To organize complex data structures using various visual mapping techniques. • To conceptually consider the advantages and disadvantages of existing informational structures in order to make organizational changes for improved usability. • Assignment: Use Microsoft Power Point, Adobe Illustrator, or any other visual mapping program to create two site maps: • Current Site Map of the existing site in its present state • Revised Site Map based upon your personal observations and recommendations We will be hanging them up on the walls of our classroom for an in-class walking wall critique. • Format: Two formats are due! • Printed version: please print out your two site maps and bring them to class – we will have a wall critique. • Digital version: Microsoft Power Point document (.ppt). If you used another program, please save out the images and then paste them into a power point document to be posted onto your class web page. • Reading: Read the online article: A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design by Jesse James Garrett • http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/
:: Reading Assignment • Read the first part of Chapter 5 from Usability for the Web on information architecture: • Chapter 5: pgs. 120-155 • Read the online article: A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design by Jesse James Garrett • http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/