Tag: information architecture

The End of Agile as We Know It: Are Human Organisations and AI Systems Becoming the Next Management Divide? For… read more The Next Management Divide

Data (dumb data), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Businesses don’t understand their Customers, they just think they do! It’s not for the… read more Dependant on dumb data and is making bad choices?

After a year and a half of planning and work UCD2012 is almost due to start. It started as a… read more UCD2012 Conference in London 9th to 10th November view from a chair

Given the response from the last post I’m going to take the educational publishing example a bit further, if I… read more #Information #Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information Part 2

IA is not another name for UX User experience (UX) and Information Architecture (IA) are very different and have separate… read more #Information #Architecture (IA) is not another name for #User #Experience (UX)

A simple website may only include 8 top level pages, 50 secondary and perhaps only 300 tertiary labelled (taxonomy) navigation… read more #Information Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information

On the O2 site you can tell it’s all user experience and no information architecture though, everything links so there are no dead ends, unfortunately the information being sought is missing it’s an annoying merry go round.

There are lots ways to elicit UCD requirements so I don’t intend on listing them all here, what I will note are some of the effective ways that I utilise. They can be described as structured, unstructured or a mixture of the two, but importantly the methods produce differing depth of requirements dependant not only on the method but on the skill of the facilitator and the characteristics of physical location used. In effect the method used is limited by the capability of the facilitator.