Weeks

Assignments
& 
Study Modules

IA
  Projects

Supplemental Readings,  Additional Resources,
Blackboard Discussions, etc.

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WE ARE HERE 
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1st
Assignment  

  begin thinking about your project

Learn how to "PACE" Yourself
(plan, activate, control, end) 
Project Management Method

IMLS Project Planning Tutorial
http://e-services.imls.gov/project_planning

intertwining's simple 5-step
Systems Analysis and Design Process

• 10 questions about Information Architecture

• IA explained: some misconceptions

• The Information Architecture of Everyday Things 

• Big IA, Little IA

• IA Process - Dating Example

 join "Readings" Forum in blackboard.

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Begin Study Modules:

Define

Understand

Analyze

Shape

Create

Brainstorm and negotiate your project with the professor in blackboard "projects" forum.  

open and begin architecting your project space 
in Blackboard

Incrementally post project-specific documents following the model in the IA Workbook

Monitor other student's project work, make comments and suggestions, where appropriate, serving as a consultant to those projects.

ASIS&T IA summit 2005 ONLINE
March 3-7

Tutorials:

• Webmonkey's IA Tutorial
  

• Blackwell's IA Online Seminar at Cambridge 
  

• Ranganathan for IAs
  A simplified model for facet analysis
  

• Information architecture resources
  

• Getting Started with the concepts of Usability:
  http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/
   

• Viewable with any Browser Campaign 
  (Web Design Standards)
  

• Usability Testing and Library Web Site Redesign
  at Roger Williams University
  

Value

Launch final prototype documentation
and announce to class

Review and comment on prototypes

Comprehension by Clicks
http://intertwining.org/twining/vita.htm#Publications: 

Quick!
 right brain                                       left brain
 test
http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf 

13-15

Conduct Guerilla Usability Test on your Project,

Post Results, Discuss, iterate

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Class Wrap-up

Final Discussions  

Grades Posted