…heißt eine Präsentation, die Dan Brown im April auf der IA Summit gehalten hat.

Leider sind die Folien recht knapp gehalten und auch die von ihm ins Netz gestellten Notizen ließen einige Fragen offen.

Aber jetzt hat er seine Ideen in einen umfangreichen Artikel gepackt:

I keep coming back to – principles that guide my design decisions but don’t dictate a particular approach. They help me zero-in or refine a concept by providing a stable and reliable worldview. Fairly general in nature, they apply to most situations and have sufficient room for interpretation so I can fine-tune them for individual projects. [...]

These principles make an assumption: information architecture is the practice of designing structures. These principles help guide the design of structures, but they presume the following:

• The information architect’s primary focus is the structure itself and secondarily the user interface representing the structure on screen (I make site maps and flow charts)
• The information architect has a good understanding of how people want to relate to the content and functionality contained in the structure (I’ve done my research)
• The information architect has a good understanding of the range of content and functionality to be supported by the structure (I’ve inventoried the content)

Also erst den Artikel lesen und sich dann über die Folien freuen…

→ Dan Brown – Eight Principles of IA: Redux

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