Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond, 4th Edition

Scheduled for release in mid-2015, the fourth edition of this bestselling guide focuses on information architecture as a set of tools and techniques for dealing with today’s tough information organization problems. It’s ideal for anyone involved in any aspect of design.

The universal and timeless principles of information organization described in the book’s first three editions still apply in our increasingly mobile world. In the fourth edition, the authors cast those principles in the context of current practice, using many updated examples and illustrations. They examine technology- and vendor-independent tools and techniques that have also stood the test of time, and have updated the book’s appendix to include the most useful information architecture resources available today.

Reserve your copy of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition and learn how well-planned information architecture is more essential than ever.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introducing Information Architecture
Chapter 1. The Problems That Information Architecture Solves
Chapter 2. Defining Information Architecture
Chapter 3. Design for Finding
Chapter 4. Design for Understanding
Part II. Basic Principles of Information Architecture
Chapter 5. The Anatomy of an Information Architecture
Chapter 6. Organization Systems
Chapter 7. Labeling Systems
Chapter 8. Navigation Systems
Chapter 9. Search Systems
Chapter 10. Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata
Part III. Getting Information Architecture Done
Chapter 11. Research
Chapter 12. Strategy
Chapter 13. Design and Documentation
Appendix A. CODA
Appendix B. Appendix