Week 2 Flashcards
The structural design of shared information environments is called…
information architecture
The synthesis of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems within digital, physical, and cross-channel ecosystems is called…
information architecture.
The art and science of shaping information products and experience to support usability and fundability, and understanding is called…
information architecture.
The process of designing, integrating and aggregating information spaces to create usable, simple and convenient systems for the intended user is…
information architecture.
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…
information architect.
The two focus areas of information architecture are…
navigation and interaction.
Information architect should look to balance user needs with…
technical limitations and business goals
Examples of low fidelity front-end development steps are…
wireframes, blue prints
Example of high fidelity front-end development step is…
live prototypes
The four D’s in the information architecture are…
discovery -> definition -> design -> development
Examples of the discovery step in information architecture are…
stakeholder interviews, user research.
Name the process of identifying patterns and trends in user behaviour, tasks, preferences and obstacles
user research.
Name a few methods of doing user research
interviews, surveys.
Name the assessment process of other companies in your field of work, what features and functionalities are standard…
competitive/comparative research
Name the process where evaluators examine the interface in order to check if it complies with industry heuristics…
heuristic evaluation
Name some usability criteria…
concise navigation structure, good use of whitespace in page design, the content is current and scannable, search results are relevant
Examples of the definition step in information architecture are…
designing personas, sketching, user journey, content audit.
The process and the result of cataloging the entire contents of a website is called…
content inventory.
The process of evaluating the content inventory based on some website content analysis criteria is called…
content audit.
What two types of card sort are there?
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)
What is the goal of card sort?
organize content more efficiently, create new categories based on user perspectives
I high level diagram showing the hierarchy of a website is called a…
site map.
Examples of the design step in information architecture are…
wireframes, prototyping, task flows.
A usability technique to evaluate the findability of topics on a website is called…
tree testing (done in a simplified, textual tree version of a website, rather than in the complex visual one).
