Architecture of Information: From Business Analysis to Interaction Design
Architecture of Information, term that came to simplify a complex activity, multidisciplinary, involving planning information for access to all human beings through digital media. In 1976, the first buddy to use, creating the term was Richard Saul WURMAN is not nothing that he is one of the great gurus of the web, that among many, there are also: Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, famous by the book polar bear.
Currently an MBA course in Information Technology, very focused way for developers, support and help desk. But as in any such course in Brazil, missed the focus on the user, after all the advances that I develop a software capable of making calculations and cool down with time to answer, if anyone can purge information on it? Then enter the Interaction Design and Architecture of Information, which to me are very intertwined. Some authors argue that the Information Architecture is under the Interaction Design and there is also the reverse. But this is not the case I want to discuss.
I have to do a monograph and I do not want anything about programming or extreme objects, leaving it to who understands. My business is to organize this mess of information that developers insist on doing, let diagrams, schemes to facilitate the production of the program is that the eyes of users is as natural as possible.
There are several methods of developing content and interfaces, created by the big names mentioned up there.
All research involving more research secondary, so look about which existing methodologies and to my surprise, there are a lot of them, but not to shoot in the dark, I will help by data collected by the research of Guilhermo Reis stressed that the use Architects of these methods by using information Brazilians Jesse James Garrett, Rosenfeld and Morville, Moebius, however the most striking is that the majority uses its own methodology. And not wanting to make law or tie and standardize something that should be adapted to the projects, I chose to do a bibliography of the most widely used methods that have been raised in search of Guilhermo, agree that, hand on the wheel huh?
It should describe the steps of the Information Architecture for the development of software. Understand here that website is also software. Remember the definition: "Hardware is what kicks you and what you xinga software."
The result of this whole crazy leaves soon, when ready, certainly let the file available here.


































February 6th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Certainly the traditional software engineering is not focused on the user, but in the processes. So many programmers or programming teams can not meet the customers.
But the current methods of development, chamdas agile development methodologies such as XP, scrum, close to the user team, improving communication between them and result in better software.
I think a look at these technologies can help you improve the architecture of information in a software development.
ps: i updates link in the address of my blog.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Nice website!