the architecture of understanding
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Slides from Peter Morville's talk at UX Lisbon 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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The Architecture of Understanding
Peter Morville, UX Lisbon 2012
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#dtdt
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in•for•ma•tion ar•chi•tec•ture n.
• The structural design of shared information environments.
• The combination of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems in web sites and intranets.
• The art and science of shaping information products and experiences to support usability and findability.
• An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
Polar Bear IA
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Framing
1. Classic Information Architecture (Polar Bear).
2. Web Strategy (Web, Mobile, Social).
3. Cross-Channel Strategy (Physical, Digital).
4. Ubiquitous IA (Intertwingularity)..
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The Library of Congress“To further the progress of knowledge and
creativity.”.
FragmentationFragmentation into multiple sites, domains, and identities is clearly a major problem. Users don’t know which site to visit for which purpose.
Findability Users can’t find what they need from the home page, but most users don’t come through the front door. They enter via a web search or a deep link, and are confused by what they find. Even worse, most never use the Library, because its resources aren’t easily findable.
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1. One Library
2. Core Areas
3. Network Intelligence
Web Strategy
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Interfaces• Portal• Search• Object• Set• Page
Caveats• Visual Design• Starting Point
Wireframes
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13Source: Search Patterns (2010)
Search is a Complex, Adaptive System
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Where architects use forms and spaces to design environments for inhabitation, information architects use nodes and links to create environments for understanding.Jorge Arango, Architectures
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17“Desire Lines” Photo: Berkeley Path Gallery by Kevin Fox
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Experiences Across Channels
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“People keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable, and sequential when they can’t.
Everything is deeply intertwingled.” Ted Nelson
“Information is blurring the lines between products and services to create multi-channel, cross-platform, trans-media, physico-digital user experiences.” Peter Morville
23Source: Subject to Change (2008)
World’s Best Information
Architect
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Desktop
Kiosk
Mobile
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• Location (GPS)• Orientation (Compass)• Motion (Accelerometer)• Orientation/Motion (Gyroscope)• Touch (Multi-Touch, Gestural)• Light (Ambient)• Proximity• Device (Bluetooth)• Audio (Microphone)• Image/Video (Camera)• RFID (Soon)
Sensors
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“After a half-hour, a three-tone alert sounds…If the bottle
still has not been opened, the system makes an automated
reminder phone call to the patient or a caregiver. The
GlowCap system compiles adherence data which anyone
can be authorized to track. That way the doctor can make
sure Gramps stays on his meds.”
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BrainPort
Camera in glasses captures video.
Image recreated on grid of 400 electrodes.
User feels the shape on the tongue.
Brain learns to see through the tongue.
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ProductPackagingPrint CatalogCall CenterWebsiteBlogFacebookTwitterYouTubeEmailDirect MailRadioTelevision
ChannelWebSocial MediaEmailMessagingTelephonePrint
PlatformWebiOSAndroidMac OS XMS Windows
DeviceDesktopLaptopMobileTabletTelevisionKiosk
ScaleCovertMobilePersonalEnvironmentalArchitecturalUrban
MediaBookNewspaperMagazineVideoAudioPosterBillboard
ContextHomeWorkWalkingDrivingShoppingPlanePartyPersonalSocialLocationTimeTask
Touchpoint Taxonomy
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Design PrinciplesDesign
Principles
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Cross-Channel Strategy
Composition multi- or cross-channel; mix of
platforms, devices, media; coherence
Consistency brand, features, organization, interaction
balanced against value of optimization
Connection links, tags, signs, maps; call to action
Continuity bookmark, resume playback, flow
Context personal, social, location, time, task
Conflict identify/resolve, org chart, free-riding
http://findability.org/archives/000652.php
37Adapted from Cross-Platform Service User Experience
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1851637
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Craft beautiful designs that deliver a quality experience
to your users no matter how large (or small) their display.
1. Fluid Grids2. Flexible Images3. Media Queries
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Why Separate Mobile & Desktop Web Pages at Bagcheck?
With a dual template system, we were able to optimize:
1. Source Order2. Media (Speed, Quality, Interaction)3. URL Structure4. Application Design
Navigation at Bottom
Navigation at Top
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To make the right decisions about composition and
consistency, you need a cross-channel strategy.
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Design for
Connection
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Over 50% of REI online business is picked up in a store.
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BarcodeIdentifies a Product (e.g. Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes 14
oz.)
QR CodeInitiates a Response (e.g., URL, Message, Phone, SMS,
Email)
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Price CheckProduct DetailEndless Aisle
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Continuity
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Conflict
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Context
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Marathon
Triathlon
Cross-Channel
We must leave ourcomfort zones, cross-
train,and collaborate.
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Source: delightability.com
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“There is nothing more basic than categorization to our thought, perception, action, and speech.”
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What architects do for buildings, information architects do for…
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“There is a problem in discussing systems only with words. Words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one a time in linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously. To discuss them properly, it is necessary to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion.”
"In an era of cross-channel experiences and product-service systems, it makes less and less sense to design sitemaps and wireframes without also..."
“…mapping the customer journey, modeling the system dynamics, and analyzing impacts upon business processes, incentives, and the
org chart."
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Richard Saul Wurman’s Sandcastles (1971). Stolen from The Nature of IA by Dan Klyn (2010).
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IA Therefore I AmPeter [email protected]
Understanding IA (Prezi)http://is.gd/iaprezi
Bloghttp://findability.org/
Twitter@morville