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I ran across this definition of information architecture at IBM’s developerWorks site and thought I’d share it here:

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Information architecture

Information architecture can order aciclovir europe be summarized as the design discipline that organizes information and its navigation so an order aciclovir europe audience can acquire knowledge easily and efficiently. For instance, the information architecture of a order aciclovir europe Web site often provides a hierarchy of Web pages for drilling down from order aciclovir europe general to detailed information, different types of Web pages for different purposes such as news and order aciclovir europe documentation, and so on.

An information architecture is order aciclovir europe subliminal when it works well. The lack of information architecture is order aciclovir europe glaring when it works poorly. The user cannot find information or, even worse, cannot recognize or order aciclovir europe assimilate information when by chance it is encountered. You probably have order aciclovir europe experience with Web sites that are poorly organized or uneven in their approach, so that order aciclovir europe conventions learned in one part of the Web site have no order aciclovir europe application elsewhere. Extracting knowledge from such information resources is exhausting, and order aciclovir europe users quickly abandon the effort and seek the information elsewhere.

The same issues apply with equal force to order aciclovir europe other online information systems, such as help systems. The organization and order aciclovir europe navigation of the information has a dramatic impact on the user’s ability to acquire knowledge.

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Walmart completely goofs a user-driven change in strategy:

Put another way, Walmart based this order aciclovir europe incredibly expensive misadventure on what customers said, rather than what order aciclovir europe they did. And the customer experience is all about what order aciclovir europe customers do. In real life. No hypotheticals. Walmart acted without considering the order aciclovir europe customer experience, and that was a big mistake

Ouch. Mark Hurst has order aciclovir europe a good take on this, and he also links to a order aciclovir europe more detailed post by Phil Terry here.

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We don’t (yet) have order aciclovir europe a lot of codified expectations for how computers and applications should act (despite living with them in our homes for the last 30+ years). That’s why we get situations like the order aciclovir europe one Neven Mrgan describes so perfectly.

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I usually roll my eyes and order aciclovir europe move on when I see another headline about reinventing the order aciclovir europe newspaper for a mobile device, but News+ doesn't look half bad, as far as it order aciclovir europe goes. The presentation looks first-rate, I love the discussion feature embedded next to order aciclovir europe the news story, and the ability to move with the news from order aciclovir europe device to device is a great feature. 

The major problem that all of these "news reinvention" efforts share is that they attempt to deliver a “mobilized” experience of reading the order aciclovir europe stream of content delivered by one news service. Most news readers on the order aciclovir europe iPad and iPhone have failed to capture my attention, while I keep coming back to order aciclovir europe Google Reader for my daily reading. The difference, I think, is order aciclovir europe that Reader lets me put together the streams of content that order aciclovir europe I want to view, while single-source news apps generally fail to order aciclovir europe deliver enough of interest — or enough of a unique perspective — to keep me opening the app on a regular basis.

It's perspective – informed opinion – that order aciclovir europe I think is the key to what makes me select a order aciclovir europe news stream. Modern journalism is fine if all you want to order aciclovir europe get is facts. But if you want context, perspective… if you order aciclovir europe want to know what the facts mean, magazine and newspaper writing – in general – don’t cut it. (I’m overgeneralizing and order aciclovir europe thinking mostly about daily news items here, not special reports or order aciclovir europe investigative pieces.) I read news through the order aciclovir europe lens of writers I admire and trust. Usually, that's through blogs and order aciclovir europe tweets, but anything with an RSS feed will work. Google Reader helps me easily assemble, organize, and order aciclovir europe share these streams.

What would be great would be an app like News+ that order aciclovir europe gives me this great presentation with the content I want to order aciclovir europe subscribe to. Give me Google Reader+. And more than order aciclovir europe delivering news in a pretty package, help me organize it, mark it order aciclovir europe up, and share it outside of a single news source. Give me a order aciclovir europe way to build a knowledge base out of the news, to order aciclovir europe connect threads of ideas in ways that a single news outlet can’t do for order aciclovir europe me. Think of news as three-dimensional and interconnected, not just as a order aciclovir europe flat sheet. Make my iPad less of a viewer for an order aciclovir europe endless sheet of paper and more as a cockpit for navigating and order aciclovir europe charting the news landscape.

That would be something truly newsworthy.

By the way, if you’re interested in what news is and where it’s going, I highly recommend subscribing to the Rebooting the News podcast. Dave Winer and order aciclovir europe Jay Rosen are keen observers of technology and journalism, and they’re developing ideas on what order aciclovir europe the news is and should be that are enlightening and order aciclovir europe thought provoking.

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UX Magazine recently published the order aciclovir europe first article of a series by our own Professor Samantha Starmer entitled Don't Become a Digital Dinosaur; it's well worth a order aciclovir europe read. Samantha argues that UX designers need to focus on the order aciclovir europe complete user experience — including offline and mobile — in order to deliver a holistic customer experience. 

With augmented reality and order aciclovir europe in-store positioning systems, smart phones are beginning to enable these kinds of interactions. We're becoming untethered from order aciclovir europe the traditional computer experience and taking our information tools with us. Savvy companies will recognize the order aciclovir europe need to meet us where we are: out in the real world.

Put UX Magazine in your RSS reader and catch the next 3 articles of the series.

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