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Week 2 Flashcards

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The structural design of shared information environments is called…

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information architecture

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The synthesis of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems within digital, physical, and cross-channel ecosystems is called…

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information architecture.

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The art and science of shaping information products and experience to support usability and fundability, and understanding is called…

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information architecture.

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The process of designing, integrating and aggregating information spaces to create usable, simple and convenient systems for the intended user is…

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information architecture.

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The person who determines what content and structure a website will have and specifies ow the users will find information on the site is called…

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information architect.

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The two focus areas of information architecture are…

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navigation and interaction.

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Information architect should look to balance user needs with…

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technical limitations and business goals

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Examples of low fidelity front-end development steps are…

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wireframes, blue prints

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Example of high fidelity front-end development step is…

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live prototypes

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The four D’s in the information architecture are…

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discovery -> definition -> design -> development

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Examples of the discovery step in information architecture are…

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stakeholder interviews, user research.

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Name the process of identifying patterns and trends in user behaviour, tasks, preferences and obstacles

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user research.

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Name a few methods of doing user research

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interviews, surveys.

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Name the assessment process of other companies in your field of work, what features and functionalities are standard…

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competitive/comparative research

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Name the process where evaluators examine the interface in order to check if it complies with industry heuristics…

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heuristic evaluation

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Name some usability criteria…

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concise navigation structure, good use of whitespace in page design, the content is current and scannable, search results are relevant

17
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Examples of the definition step in information architecture are…

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designing personas, sketching, user journey, content audit.

18
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The process and the result of cataloging the entire contents of a website is called…

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content inventory.

19
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The process of evaluating the content inventory based on some website content analysis criteria is called…

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content audit.

20
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What two types of card sort are there?

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Open card sort (participants sort cards with no pre-established categories, which is useful for new architectures) / closed card sort (participants sort cards into existing categories)

21
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What is the goal of card sort?

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organize content more efficiently, create new categories based on user perspectives

22
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I high level diagram showing the hierarchy of a website is called a…

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site map.

23
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Examples of the design step in information architecture are…

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wireframes, prototyping, task flows.

24
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A usability technique to evaluate the findability of topics on a website is called…

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tree testing (done in a simplified, textual tree version of a website, rather than in the complex visual one).

25
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The styleless visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website, with a purpose to best arrange content to accomplish a certain business purpose is called…

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website wireframe.

26
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Examples of the development step in information architecture are…

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site development, usability testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), quality assurance (AQ)

27
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A standard which controls the resources expended by the users in order to reach their goal, freedom from discomfort and positive attitudes towards using the product

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ISO 9241

28
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What is in order that can be defined systematically?

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Natural order

29
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Give some examples of natural order…

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alphabetic, chronologic, by metaphor, by audience type, geographical

30
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Organisation by meaning and relatinoships between content is called…

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semantic organisation

31
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Organisation by concepts from multiple orthogonal categorie is called…

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faceted classification

32
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Name some incentives for the users to tag content…

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future retrieval, social interaction, play, attract attention, opinion expression, contribute.

33
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What are the factors of good navigation?

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User has to know: Where am I now? What can I do? and Where can I go to next.

34
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What are examples of navigation?

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Global navigation, local navigation, contextual navigation and supplemental navigation.

35
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What are SERPs?

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Search Engine Results Page

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