Write down all the organizational structures from both readings with enough info to remember them.
Web Style Guide:
Themes to organize information include by:
Category
Time
Location
Alphabetic
Continuum
Card sorting and chunking are self explanatory.
Different types of hierarchy include:
Hub and Spoke (middle going out)
More complex (one starting point and several sub pages)
Web shows the links between different pages.
All of these start linear and get more and more complicated until you reach a web.
Wireframes are a rough outline, almost a sketch, of a website before it's built
Eyetracking:
How the eye moves through the page, 2 types the Poynter study where people work to the bottom then move back up and the F pattern and the golden triangle which shows how people typically start looking at the top left hand corner and move down.
Information Architecture:
Challenges include ambiguity, heterogeneity, differences in perspective, internal politics
Different organization schemes include:
Exact (mutually exclusive sections) such as alphabetical, chronological, geographical
Ambiguous (no clear definition) such as topical, task oriented, audience specific and metaphor driven
Hybrid mixes these
Hierarchy: top down, this can be narrow and deep or broad and shallow
Hypertext: connected in no specific way which allows for flexibility but can be confusing
Database: also a top down approach and is the most detailed
It's funny how good everyone's notes are on these readings, yet when I asked in class on Thursday about eyetracking and wireframing, people looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Short-term memory? In any case, good notes. Thanks.
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