We'll close this chapter with some additional examples of IA and see how you can put to use what you've learned in this chapter. However, before we do, I want to leave you with a final thought as you begin incorporating good IA into your design work:
There are two kinds of people: how people and what people. There are those who think about how they are going to accomplish something, and there are those who stop to think about what it is they want to accomplish in the first place…What and how are important in doing almost anything. I try to think of what is to be done rather than how to do it. It's important to consciously state: "No, that's a how, not a what; think of what it is and not how you're going to do it." | ||
--Richard Saul Wurman, Hats, Design Quarterly 145 |
Creating good IA and good UX design requires knowing what you want to convey and what you want your customers/users to accomplish. This should be done before you start to consider how you are going to do...