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Information Architecture Institute > Learning IA - Information Architecture Institute. The Information Architecture Institute's Tools project aims to disseminate new IA tools from the community in order to learn from each other. Below you will find document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice.

The documents have been donated by the community, by people just like you. If you have templates and documents that you would like to share with the information architecture community, contact us. Swim-Lane Diagram Submitted by Holger Maason Article dated: 13 March 2012 Abstract: This is the third part of a series about design, analysis and creative techniques. Read full Article at: Card Sorting Submitted by Holger Maason Article dated: 3 August 2009 Abstract: This is the first part of a series about design techniques and analysis techniques. Read full article at: Brainstorming Core+Path Template Core+Path Template (23KB) The Information Architecture Institute.

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Architecture. Cardsort. Search Patterns: Design for Discovery. Boxes and Arrows: Defining Information Architecture Deliverables ... One of the hottest topics these days in Information Architecture circles is documentation. This is probably partly because the IA’s role is so ill defined. Our jobs sit perched between engineering and graphic design: go too far in one direction, we’re doing the coding, go to far in the other and we are doing the design. Neither role maximizes the architect’s key skills; defining the organizational structure and behavior of the web site or application. An IA is most effective when they leave implementation and final graphic design out of the mix. The documents they create to express this have to be crafted with equal skill and diplomacy.

There are seven typical deliverables an IA will produce. Occasionally they will not produce all seven, sometimes the deliverables will include others such as a thesaurus or taxonomy. 1. User experience guru Don Norman defined three types of models that occur when creating a product Implementation models Conceptual models Mental models. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.