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The Star Wars Pointer Scene and Information Architecture

JKevinParker

understandability— the degree to which information is easily understood by the intended audience. First we'll look at why understandability matters, then what the pointer scene is, and finally how we apply it to information architecture. accessibility— the degree to which information is accessible by as many people as possible.

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Information Architecture – “the battery in the toy”

CGI

Information Architecture – “the battery in the toy”. If you want to develop an effective IM solution it is critical you understand what information your organisation needs, the role it plays in supporting activity, the way it flows through the organisation, how it is used and how its use needs to be governed. You know the scene.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

ChiefTech

After this, Jens worked as a consultant and information architect for website, museum and edutainment projects.He authored or co-authored several books, among them “Website-Konzeption” on information architecture and workflow for creating successful websites. He publishes a monthly newsletter dealing with website production.

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Digital Is Killing Serendipity

John Battelle's Searchblog

But there’s something deeper in this example – as we’ve adapted to a life lived extremely online, we’ve often made millions of tiny, unconscious choices that, taken together, can steer our futures in ways that prevent a flourishing society.

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Digitizing the credit management journey

CGI

Digital experience means utilizing a lean UX approach for the research, design and implementation of web-based information architectures and web-enabled interactions, along with monitoring and testing to ensure peak performance and goal attainment. .

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The Intranet Imperative (2005)

ChiefTech

The traditionalist view of intranets, one that concentrates on static information built around an impregnable information architecture, creates a risk for organisations that may be oblivious to the rise of collaborative and dynamic “application-nets” that connect users to people, places and things.

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ALL Data as a Service (DaaS/BDaaS) - EAs in a New Role, as DaaS Enablers

Interactive Information Management

IT Services Management - who design, implement and operate the information and data management infrastructure the DaaS Provider relies upon - and manage the IT component and services portfolio this infrastructure includes. For example the databases, virtualization technologies, data access services, storage and middleware capabilities.