Hierarchy of Shapes, Colors, and Other Visual Elements
Aside from hierarchy, the architecture above does another thing well: It displays every engagement point uniquely as needed through a simple legend and a few key phrases.
The legend denotes page and content type, and it signifies variations between colors of shapes.
This is important because, though Duke’s site appears fairly simple, the IA only go.
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How to Design Information Architecture
As part of the UX process, IA design follows very similar patterns to flowcharting: Add shapes and connect them with lines in an organized fashion to a single document.
The challenge when building IA is in understanding howyour app or website actually works from the user’s perspective, and how to organize that information into a readable, legible f.
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Information Architecture Best Practices
While there are few defined rules for what constitutes information architecture, when going through the process, consider the following:
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The Best Information Architecture Tools
There are plenty of software applications that allow for building an IA, but few are simple and quick enough to make the experience enjoyable.
Or at the very least, easy to manage.
Draw.io, used in the video above, is completely free for personal and professional use and automatically plugs into Google Drive.
It also has integrations with Confluenc.
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Understanding and Showing Visual Hierarchy
The most challenging aspect of creating a new information architecture is almost always in constructing it hierarchically.
It’s a common misconception that IA must be built “from the top down.” That’s almost always more difficult to do unless it’s an existing product, such as in the video above.
When building IA from scratch, unless your website or.
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What Is Information Architecture, and Why Is It Important?
Information architecture (IA) is, like a blueprint, a visual representation of the product’s infrastructure, features, and hierarchy.
The level of detail is up to the designer, so IA may also include navigation, application functions and behaviors, content, and flows.
There is no set limit to the size or shape of IA; nevertheless, it should encompa.