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Daniel Brown's eight principles of information architecture (audio & slides)
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http://www.slideshare.net/brownorama/eight-principles-of-information-architecture
- Treat content as objects which can be described in terms of properties, categories and relationships.
- Paradox of choice: Content should be organized in easily-understandable groupings
- Progressive disclosure: Offer additional information only when it's needed
- Exemplars: show examples (category names are not self-explanatory)
- Multiple front doors: Your users will be first see your site at different places (e.g. via a google search leading to an obscure page); they all need to work
- Growth: Accommodate new structures and concepts which will appear over time.
- Multiple classification systems: All objects can and should be categorized in multiple different ways
- Navigation by purpose: Think of navigation schemes in terms of their purpose, not their position on the page.