Nancy Kaplan
AC 113C
x5319
nkaplan@ubalt.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30 - 6:30 PM; Saturdays 12:30 - 1:30 PM; and by appointment
Prerequisites: PBDS 660 or passing score on the Hypermedia Proficiency Exam.
Course Catalog Description: Teaches students to gather requirements data, model information structures, and develop a variety of documents to communicate the information architecture to other participants, including technical experts, usability experts, clients, and users. Students learn to determine a target audience, develop personas or user profiles, refine and validate requirements and create site maps and other Òspecs and wire frames.
Extended Course Description: This course provides a practical understanding of the fundamental concepts and methods of value to anyone involved in the building and managing large scale web sites. Information architecture includes:
Brown, D. Communicating Design. ISBN-13: 978-0321392350.
Rosenfeld, L. and P. Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd edtion. ISBN-13: 978-0596527341.
Weinberger, D. Everything is Miscellaneous. ISBN-10: 0805080430
UB Library Code: You will need a UB ID card and a bar code from Langsdale Library to access the ACM's Digital Library resources from off-campus locations.
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