“This presentation will discuss the process of designing the research portal of the web site, with emphasis on the lessons learned by the XIA development team.” (Jill Burkart et al.) – courtesy of ia summit blog

“If you consider the subject only to be concerned with organizing websites, then it is pretty clear that a master’s degree in the topic may be overkill, and a course or two within a more general program will probably suffice to get you on the path. But if, like me, you think of IA as a more encompassing effort aimed at understanding how information can be organized and presented for human and organizational use, both within and beyond websites, and addressing issues of performance effectiveness and efficiency, user satisfaction, sustainability and indeed aesthetic response to a resource, then a degree program looks to be more like a minimum requirement to get started.” (Andrew Dillon – ASIS&T Bulletin Feb. 2004)

“(…) a quick and dirty presentation.” (Tracy Reith)

“In July 2003, PeopleSoft acquired mid-tier enterprise software company JD Edwards. Perhaps the most important business move in PeopleSoft’s history, this acquisition required quick action from the PeopleSoft.com team, which wanted to demonstrate the very real integration of the two companies. PeopleSoft brought in Adaptive Path to ensure a smooth process, and the integrity of the new Web site.” (Adaptive Path)

“This survey was conducted in November and December 2003. Instructors listed on our list of IA programs were invited to participate. A total of 19 responses were collected.” (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture) – courtesy of victor lombardi

“As always, the IA Summit focuses on connecting with peers. You can take advantage of frequent opportunities to catch up with colleagues and meet others in the field. And if you are new to IA, the Summit is the best way to begin your involvement in the exciting discipline of Information Architecture.” (IA Summit 2004) – courtesy of victor lombardi

“A redesign has some built-in advantages over everyday maintenance; the most useful being focus. And focus is the loam that allows a shared vision to grow.” (Christina Wodtke – Boxes and Arrows)

“(…) designed to be a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a new term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in his (or her) career, or be required to know its meaning in the course of executing his or her responsibilities as a librarian. The vocabulary of publishing, printing, book history, literature, and computer science has been included when, in the author’s judgment, a definition might prove helpful, not only to library and information professionals, but also to laypersons.” (Joan M. Reitz – Western Connecticut State University)

“Card sorting, which involves writing the content on index cards and asking users to sort them into logical piles, with the piles becoming the architecture of the site, tells us how to organize content. CAA is similar, except there aren’t any cards.” (Jared Spool – UIE Roadshow)

“Overviews, tutorials, methods, affinity diagrams, card sorting, free listing, prototyping, wireframes, comprehensive sites, articles, and related links.” (University of Minnesota Duluth)

“The physical world is a network where everything touches everything else and everyone touches everyone else. The connection can be physical, financial, emotional or spiritual, but itís there. This is even more the case in the virtual world. As its name suggests, the web is a system of connected networks. In our quest for information, we are linked from one site to another and another; there is no beginning or end.” (Fu-Tien Chiou – Boxes and Arrows)

“Web design has been through the evolutionary period – the period of experimentation. There was a time when nobody really understood how to design a website. It was new for all of us. But the Web is not so new anymore. So much has been learned and figured out about what works and what doesn’t work. Your job can be so much easier by adapting best practices.” (Gerry McGovern – UIE Roadshow)

“Information Architecture can be applied to resolve breakdowns in site design and navigation structure. The role of good Information Architecture is to make the Website work not in the technical sense, but from a functional, organized, conceptual perspective.” (Ivan Walsh – Sitepoint) – courtesy of lucdesk

“I’ve put up a couple of fresh presentations on my site for your enjoyment/perplexment.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

“I have experienced first-hand the tumultuous childhood and adolescence of the profession. It was fun. It was painful. It was exciting. It was a lot of work. And, it’s over. For better or worse, information architecture has entered a new stage of maturity.” (Peter Morville)

“Many colleges, universities, and companies offer courses in information architecture. (…) listings of schools that offer courses and full degree programs dedicated to IA. In compiling the above lists, we included courses and programs that explicitly used ‘information architecture’ or ‘information design’ in the title. For courses not explicitly using these terms, a course was judged to be IA-related if it encompassed a digital information design/organization theme and used one of four IA books as the text.” (Victor Lombardi – AIfIA Educational Curriculum Initiative)

“There seems to be a parallel relationship between level of detail and accepted-ness. As information architecture grows to be a defined step in my company’s process, my wireframes have grown more detailed; more departments must participate in and comment on them.” (Liz Danzico – Boxes and Arrows)

“When people come to your website they have a mental map of how their ‘ideal’ webpage should be. They expect to see certain things in certain places. They expect to read certain killer words in your classification and content. The more you meet their mental map, the more successful your website will be.” (Gerry McGovern)

“This article outlines practical ways to move from an intranet based on the organisation chart to one that is more intuitive and allows people to complete their tasks more easily. It does not describe a full intranet redesign process, but focuses on those issues that are most likely to occur if you wish to break your organisation chart.” (Donna Maurer – Step Two Designs)