Information Architecture

Personas and Roles Some Persona URLS:http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters_personas.asphttp://iawiki.net/PersonaDesignhttp://foruse.com/newsletter/foruse15.htm#3 Sometimes Personas is the right sentiment but not the right approach,because they assume you have quite distinguishably different userarchetypes. In this case it may be better to adopt a role-based approach, whereby you definedifferent ‘hats’ or roles that a user may take in order to fulfil a kind oftask … Read more

All of the following resources came from a discussion list (not my compilation). Apologies to whomever compiled this listing – I’ve forgotten so I can’t give credit…. 🙁 Site Index examples:Good:http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/site_index.jsphttp://www.w3.org/Help/siteindexhttp://www.montaguelab.com/Public/indexes.htmhttp://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.htmlhttp://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=3171&FOLDER<>folder_id=3167http://www.writersblock.ca/common/index.htm Not so good:http://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htmDifferent style / purpose:http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/index/index.html Product Index examples:Good:http://www.ibm.com/products/az/http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/prod_index.jsp Not so good:http://www.3m.com/product/index.jhtml Sitemap examples:Good:http://www.apple.com/find/sitemap.htmlhttp://www.google.com/sitemap.htmlhttp://pages.ebay.com/sitemap.html?ssPageName=h:h:smap:UShttp://www.multimap.com/static/sitemap.htmhttp://www.latrobe.edu.au/sitemap/ Not so good:http://www.novuspetroleum.com/cmsaxs/site/1/5.asp?secID=18http://www.miami.muohio.edu/sitemap/ Bad:http://www.chaminade.edu/sitemap/content/sitemap.html (bad visualrepresentation)http://www.chaminade.edu/sitemap/index.php (not much better – … Read more

http://www.aussi.org/indexer.htmhttp://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htmhttp://www.sun.com/siteindex/http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/default.htmhttp://www.adobe.com/products/main.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-stores.html/104-3468701-8195133http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/508510/104-3468701-8195133