My Impression About Information Architecture
Organization is a very important part of developing a web page. The key that is stressed
is that even if the basic content is nice, neat, and attractive, it will not function as well if it lacks
an organizational foundation. Some steps for organizing your web page are have an inventory,
create a hierarchal outline of the content on the page, use the idea of chunking information,
draw diagrams that show the structure of the site, and have users interact with your system so
you can analyze it. Out of this information, chunking is what caught my attention because as a
user I can understand how reading too much information can be overwhelming at times. It is
best to get right to the point and not create such long documents because they tend to be
boring if they’re too long or the reader tend to get annoyed because he or she has to keep
scrolling down more to read.
When it comes to the site structure, mental models are built. You don’t want the
information hierarchy of the mental model to be too simple but you also don’t want it to be too
deep either. Another piece of advice for site structure is that having a search bar for navigation
throughout your pages. This is very helpful because it saves the user time to find what they
need instantly rather than manually going through every page. Some ways to organize
information are with sequences, hierarchies, or with a web-like structure. Many complex sites
contains a little bit of all three organizational ways.