Everyday Information Architecture

by Lisa Maria Marquis

Overview

The design of information on the web changes the way people find, understand, and use that information-for better or for worse. Lisa Maria Marquis shows you how to leverage the principles and practices of information architecture in order to craft more thoughtful and effective digital spaces. Learn how to analyze your site's content and structure, build clear and consistent taxonomies, and develop more strategic sitemaps. Because when we're intentional about how we organize web content, we create better experiences for everyone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952616655
Publisher:	LISA MARQUIS
Publication date:	04/16/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	138
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Lisa Maria Marquis is an information architect and content strategist specializing in the structural analysis of digital systems, helping organizations to build findable, understandable, and usable content experiences. She is a consultant, speaker, workshop leader, and author of Everyday Information Architecture. She lives near Boston with her partner, two dogs, four chickens, and roughly ten thousand bees.

Table of Contents

1. Systems of Organization

2. Content Analysis

3. Categories and Labels

3. Site Structure

4. Navigation and Wayfinding

5. Tags and Taxonomies

Editorial Reviews

If you want to make your website more usable and your content easier to find, then this book is for you. Lisa Maria Marquis shows you how to structure and organize information with simplicity, clarity, and warmth-so you'll feel prepared, not perplexed. Loaded with helpful frameworks, practical tips, and plenty of humor, this is a book you'll reach for again and again.

-SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER

Founder of Active Voice and author of Design for Real Life

I am in awe. This book breaks down thorny, technical issues masterfully and makes them accessible to anyone. Even the most experienced practitioners will find something they hadn't considered. Plus, it's a laugh riot. 14/10.

-ERIKA HALL

Author of Just Enough Research and Conversational Design

At last, a book that doesn't dwell in defining the damn thing for the sake of conceptual purity, and in doing so, elevates information architecture practice. Lisa Maria Marquis shows us that even the most minute decisions can have consequences; only by owning them can we build a better web.

-LÍVIA LABATE

Principal product manager at Vox Media

Everyday Information Architecture brings together the latest thinking on the practice in a compact volume. More importantly, Lisa Maria puts IA in a modern context, demonstrating not just how to make good decisions about structure, but why they matter.

-DAN BROWN

Author of Practical Design Discovery

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