Beginners Guide to Information Architecture | Online

About this event

This free lightning workshop is part of Future Assembly Conference 2015 and you must hold a conference pass to attend. To find out more about Future Assembly, purchase tickets, and register for free events and classes like this one check out their website here

In a world where we’re constantly bombarded by messages, it’s easy to feel overloaded. This class aims to help you feel more prepared to make sense of the messes of information, and the principles, lessons, and tools you can use to arrange the parts of something to make it understandable as a whole.

This class will provide a broad introduction to a useful set of tools and ideas around making the most of information architecture (IA). Whether you’re a student, designer, technologist, small business owner, intern, or executive, learn how IA can help you organise your next endeavour.

Takeaways

• Understand why information architecture is an important practice for anyone making anything.
• Learn how to define and describe the importance of various components of IA, including language, context, and structure.
• Find out how to identify the type of forms that information takes.
• Discover how to evaluate which IA frameworks apply in a given project context.