Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture. Timothy Greig structures the information flow of a library website. Photo by Timothy Greig Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? Along the way we’ll share some of the tweeters, books, and resources we found useful for budding information architects. A Common Workplace Scenario An information architect joined my team on a project I worked on in Atlanta. Who is an Information Architect? I find it easiest to derive what a job entails by listening to the people who do that job. Jesse James Garrett says: Information architecture encompasses a wide range of problems. Jesse James Garrett The Information Architecture Institute defines Information Architecture as: The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability.
Information Architecture Institute Lastly, to quote Andrew Hinton: Andrew Hinton in Linkosophy Each quote is insightful. FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics. How do we achieve harmony? A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Information Design — AIGA | the professional association for des. How can I learn to create beautiful infographics (with connectio. This American Infographic.
Today I listened to Episode 2. It’s funny how current this whole program sounds, everything seeming perfectly natural as “the recession” and it’s effects were mentioned. While listening to the segment on the hacker/phreaker/phishers I wondered about what kind of internet crimes are committed nowadays, so I found some data on that. I also found poet Michael Warr’s description of his schedule as a Jehovah’s Witness very interesting. It was harder to create an infographic for this one than the first one. It was less about concrete concepts on which data can be dug up, and more about thinking philosophically about good and bad, which is certainly hard to quantify.
While doing the research I found this interesting summary of cybercrime cases (at justice.gov). The summaries are simple and eloquent and tell very interesting little stories.