Information Architecture
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Overviews
- A Beginner's Guide To Information Architecture in UX - (2024) Joy Anderson
- A Guide to Information Architecture - Miklos Philips
- Complete Beginner's Guide to Information Architecture - UX Booth
- Defining Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- Flat vs. Deep Hierarchies in Information Architecture (Video) (2024) - Samhita Tankala
- Information And Information Architecture: The BIG Picture - Carrie Webster
- Information Architecture First Principles (2024) - Jorge Arango
- Information Architecture is Much More Than Navigation - Jess Jenkins
- Information Architecture: The Structure Behind Your User Interface - Nathaniel Davis
- Information Architecture: Study Guide - Page Laubheimer
- Information Architecture vs. Sitemaps: What's the Difference? (2023) - Samhita Tankala
- The Definition of Information Architecture - Peter Morville
- The Difference Between Information Architecture (IA) and Navigation - Jennifer Cardello
- What's the Difference Between Information Architecture and Content Strategy? (2024) - Jorge Arango
- What is Information Architecture? - Mickey McManus
Methods
Affinity Diagrams
- Affinity Diagrams - Learn How to Cluster and Bundle Ideas and Facts - Rikke Dam and Teo Siang
- Affinity Diagramming - Gerry Gaffney
- Affinity Diagramming: Collaborate, Sort and Prioritize UX Ideas - Kara Pernice
- Affinity Diagramming for Collaboratively Sorting UX Findings and Design Ideas (2024) - Rachel Krause and Kara Pernice
- Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls of Affinity Diagramming - Matt Brown
- Avoid Keyword Matching in Affinity Diagramming (Video) (2023) - Matt Brown
Card Sorting
- 10 Things to Know About Card Sorting
- A Modified Delphi Approach to a New Card Sorting Methodology - Celeste Lyn Paul
- Analyzing Card-Sorting Data Using Graph Visualization - Celeste Lyn Paul
- Card Sorting - Gerry Gaffney
- Card Sorting: How to Best Organize Product Offerings (Video) - Kathryn Whitenton
- Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches (2024) - Samhita Tankala and Jakob Nielsen
- Card Sorting vs. Tree Testing (2024) - Samhita Tankala
- Can Card Sorting Improve the Usability of Your Designs? - Sergey Sinyakov
- Card Sorting a Kitchen Taxonomy - Grace G. Lau
- Card Sorting - Defining Related Content Categories - Linnea Ann Williams
- Card Sorting + Tree Testing : The Science of Great Site Navigation - Jeff Sauro.
- Card Sorting: Current Practices and Beyond - Jed Wood and Larry Wood
- Card Sorting: How Many Users to Test - Jakob Nielsen
- Card Sorting: The Ultimate Guide (in 2024) (2024) - Interaction Design Foundation
- Card Sorting - Online Versus Offline - Alex Manchester
- Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches - Jakob Nielsen
- Card Sorting to Discover the Users' Model of the Information Space - Jakob Nielsen
- Card Sorting: Uncover Users' Mental Models for Better Information Architecture (2024) - Samhita Tankala and Katie Sherwin
- Comparing ChatGPT to Card Sorting Results (2024) - Jeff Sauro, Will Schiavone, and Jim Lewis
- Do Images Change Card Sort Results? - Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis
- Do Images Make Card Sorting Easier? - Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis
- Enhancing Card Sorting Dendrograms Through the Holistic Analysis Of Distance Methods and Linkage Criteria - José A. Macías
- How to Avoid Bias in Card Sorting (Video) - Kathryn Whitenton
- How to Interpret Dendrograms from Card Sorting to Improve Information Architecture (Video) - Page Laubheimer
- Information Architecture (IA): Using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) and K-Means Clustering Algorithm for Analysis of Card Sorting Data - Sione Paea, Ross Baird
- Information Design Using Card Sorting by James Robertson
- Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner's Guide - Pierre Croft
- Learning from Closed Card Sorts with Different Inputs - Kevin Sheldon
- Michigan World Usability Day 2016: Card Sorting to Improve Findability - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
- Online Card Sorting - Even Better Than the Real Thing? - Neil Turner
- Open vs. Closed Card Sorting (Video) - Kathryn Whitenton
- Remote Card Sorting (Video) - Katie Sherwin
- Revisiting the Pile-Sort Method of User Research - Hang Guo, Khasfariyati Razikin, and Muhammad Hatib
- The Big Sort: Designing a Classification for COVID-19 - Gerry McGovern
- The Usability of Computerized Card Sorting: A Comparison of Three Applications by Researchers and End Users - Barbara Chaparro, Veronica Hinkle, and Shannon Riley
- Try a Preliminary Sift to Streamline Your Card-Sorts - Caroline Jarrett
- Using Card Sorting to Create Stronger Information Architecture - Jitesh Jaidev Jumani
- Using Card Sorting To Test Information Architecture - Jeff Sauro
Content Inventory
- Content Inventory and Auditing 101 - Anna Kaley
Prototyping
- 3 Rapid Prototyping Exercises to Improve Your UX Skills - Elaine Tran
- 5 Tips for New Prototypers (Video) - Megan Brown
- 6 Practical Tips for Testing Prototypes - Jeff Sauro
- 7 Myths About Paper Prototyping - David Travis
- Ceci n'est pas une prototype - Katherine Olvera
- Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 1 - Janet M. Six
- Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 2 - Janet M. Six
- Does the Fidelity of a Prototype Affect Results? - Jeff Sauro
- How to Prototype a Digital Form on Paper - Caroline Jarrett
- Just-Enough Prototypes Make Communicating Specs More Successful (Video) - Kim Flaherty
- Make Your Mockup in Markup - Meagan Fisher
- Optimizing Your Design For Rapid Prototype Testing - Michelle Chu
- Paper Prototyping - Shawn Medero
- Paper Prototyping 101 (Video) - Rachel Krause
- Paper Prototyping: A Cutout Kit (Video) - Kelley Gordon
- Paper Prototyping for Engineers - uxmatters.com reader
- Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code - Jakob Nielsen
- Paper Prototyping with Morae - David Travis
- Prototype Specifications: 3 Types (Video) - Leeloo Tang
- Prototypes vs Wireframes in UX Projects (Video) - Alita Joyce
- Prototyping Accessibility in Web and Mobile UI Design - Emily Grace Adiseshiah
- Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop - Casper Voogt
- Rapid Abstract Prototyping - Larry L. Constantine
- Testing Paper Mock-Up of Homepage - Jakob Nielsen
- Test Paper Prototypes to Save Time and Money - The Mozilla Case Study - Susan Farrell
- The Goldilocks Principle for Prototyping (Video) (2023) - Megan Brown
- The Role of Prototyping in UX Design: From Wireframes to Interactive Mockups (2023) - Atman Rathod
- Understanding How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results - Stanford HCI Group
- Use Good Prototype Specifications to Empower Team Collaboration - Leeloo Tang and Feifei Liu
- UX Prototypes: Low Fidelity vs. High Fidelity - Kara Pernice
- UX Prototyping: 5 Factors for Selecting the Right Tool (Video) (2024) - Megan Brown
- Wireframes are Dead, Long Live Rapid Prototyping - Neil Turner
- Web Prototyping for Touch Gestures - Sanjay Raval
- Website Prototyping: The Hands-on Guide - Ben Gremillion
Wireframes
- 5 Most Common Wireframing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) - Saad Al-Sabbagh
- A First Glimpse at Wireframing, the Book! - Leon Barnard
- A Guide to Creating Mobile-App Wireframes in 2020 - Mayur Panchal
- Achieving Alignment - Collaboration Versus Wireframes? - Janet M. Six
- Agile, OmniGraffle, and Native Mobile Wireframing - Simon Keatley
- Basic UI/UX Design Concept Difference Between Wireframe, Prototype, and Mockup - Mockplus
- Creating Content Wireframes For Responsive Design - Tom Green
- Ditch Traditional Wireframes - Sergio Nouvel
- Documenting Interaction Design: Wire Frames with Visio and Word - interakt.nu
- Expectations for Wireframe Accessibility Annotations - Indiana University's University Information Technology Services
- From Wireframes to Code, Part I - Bill Schmidt
- From Wireframes to Code, Part II - Bill Schmidt
- Generating Wireframe Boxes with CSS and HTML5 - Eric A. Meyer
- HTML Wireframes - Brad Frost
- I Get Asked a Common Question by Junior Designers (2024) - Christopher Nguyen
- Improving Wireframe Accessibility: A More Inclusive Design Process - Isaac Durazo
- Match the Tool to the Problem - Daniel Ritzenthaler
- More on Wireframes - Chris Baker
- Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes - Heleen van Nues, Lennart Overkamp
- Prototypes vs Wireframes in UX Projects (Video) - Alita Joyce
- The 7 Wonders of Wireframes - Paul Boag
- Tools for Facilitating Feedback on Prototypes and Wireframes - David Leggett
- Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS - Harris Schneiderman
- Translating Design Wireframes into Accessible HTML/CSS (Video) - Harris Schneiderman
- Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing - Cameron Chapman
- Use Paper Wireframes to Build Native Prototypes - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
- User Experience is More Than Wireframes and Prototypes - Gary Barber
- Why Wireframes Are Important in the Design Process - Sara Nagy
- Wireframes - Chris Baker
- Wireframing is Not a Religion - Joshua Brewer
- Wireframing: Tips, Tools, and Techniques Part 1 - Neal McGann
- Wireflows: A UX Deliverable for Workflows and Apps - Page Laubheimer
Comprehensive Sites
- Boxes and Arrows
- Findability.org - Peter Morville
- iaslash - Michael Angeles
- Information Architecture Resources - Jesse James Garrett
- The Information Architecture Institute
- peterme - Peter Merholz
- Visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design - Jesse James Garrett
Mobile
- Agile, OmniGraffle, and Native Mobile Wireframing - Simon Keatley
- Designing for Mobile - Part 1: Information Architecture - Elaine McVicar
- Creating Content Wireframes For Responsive Design - Tom Green
- Responsive IA: IA in the Touchscreen Era - Martin Belam
- Responsive Layouts - How To Maintain Hierarchy Through Content Choreography - Steven Bradley
- Web Prototyping for Touch Gestures - Sanjay Raval
Articles & Related Links
- Prescriptive and Descriptive Information Architectures (2025) - Jorge Arango