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Practical UX Design

By : Scott Faranello
Book Image

Practical UX Design

By: Scott Faranello

Overview of this book

Written in an easy-to-read style, this book provides real-world examples, a historical perspective, and a holistic approach to design that will ground you in the fundamental essentials of interactive design, allow you to make more informed design decisions, and increase your understanding of UX in order to reach the highest levels of UX maturity. As you will see, UX is more than just delighting customers and users. It is also about thinking like a UX practitioner, making time for creativity, recognizing good design when you see it, understanding Information Architecture as more than just organizing and labeling websites, using design patterns to influence user behavior and decision making, approaching UX from a business perspective, transforming your client’s and company’s fundamental understanding of UX and its true value, and so much more. This book is an invaluable resource of knowledge, perspective, and inspiration for those seeking to become better UX designers, increase their confidence, become more mature design leaders, and deliver solutions that provide measurable value to stakeholders, customers, and users regardless of project type, size, and delivery method.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Practical UX Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Foundations of Good IA

One of the often overlooked and undervalued skills of the UX practitioner is Information Architecture, or IA. IA is to content and functionality what wireframes are to visual design. IA is the skeleton that informs visual design and dictates what information the user will see and interact with. IA is how information is organized and prioritized, and IA helps customers/users navigate through their experience.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Focus on the fundamentals of IA to better understand how good IA guides customers/users to a desired outcome.

  • Introduce The Four Cs of IA—a checklist of sorts to help validate your IA work.

  • Learn from example the presence of IA in our everyday lives and how that translates online to inform and improve UX design.

Recognizing IA as an important aspect of your work as a UX practitioner and understanding how and why it works will improve your user's experience and the quality and success of your UX design work.