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Course Schedule and Due Dates
Please pay attention to the course schedule posted here. During the semester any updates made to the course schedule will be reflected here, not in the printed course syllabi. This will be particularly important as adjustments are made to the course schedule due to IAT events and campus closures.
Week 1:
01/29/2007
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Introduction to Course and Final Project
Introduction and Principles of Information Architecture (IA)
- Morville & Rosenfeld, Chapters 1,2,3
- Resources from class:
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Week 2:
02/05/2007 |
Organization, Labeling, and Navigation Systems
- Morville & Rosenfeld, Chapters 4,5,6,7
- Van Duyne, Landay, & Hong, Pattern Groups B,K
- Morville, Ambient Findability, Chapter 2 (Handout)
- Card Sorting, a definitive guide
- Resources from class:
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Week 3:
02/12/2007 |
Search
In Class Exercise: informal presentations on Analysis Assignment 1
Due: Analysis Assignment 1
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Week 4:
02/19/2007
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Faceted Classification, Controlled Vocabularies, Thesauri, and Meta Data
- Morville & Rosenfeld, Chapter 9
- The Sociosemantic Web, Ambient Findability, Chapter 6
- All about Facets & Controlled Vocabularies
- The Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila
- Resources from Class
In Class Exercise: Snack Classification
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Week 5:
02/26/20007
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Strategy and Process
- Morville & Rosenfeld, Chapters 11,17,18
- resources from Class:
In Class Exercise: informal presentations of Analysis Assignment 2
Due: Analysis Assignment 2
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Week 6:
03/05/2007 |
User Research
In Class Exercise: Final Project Survey Research
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Week 7:
03/12/2007 |
Design and Documentation
Due: Strategy Analysis (www.siggraph.org)
In Class Exercise: Discussion of Strategy Analylsis/ Program Plan / Final Project
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Week 8:
03/19/2007
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No Class – Spring Break |
Week 9:
03/26/2007
Meet in AC219 for Visio Workshop
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Information Architecture in Practice
More... Final Project Discussion
Due: Content Analysis and Site Map
Due: Project Plan Draft / Class Survey Questions (survey to be sent out 3/27 and collected Completed 4/1)
In Class Exercise: Visio Tutorial/Team meetings
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Week 10:
04/02/2007 |
Guest Speaker - Dan Brown
Due: Analysis Assignment 3
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Week 11:
04/09/2007 |
Information Architecture in Practice (con’t)
In Class Exercise: Bring in at least two examples of Information Architecture Plans/Projects/Samples on the web for discussion/Project Draft Review
Due: Draft findings from User Research
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Week 12:
04/16/2007 |
Site Patterns
- Van Duyne, Landay, & Hong, Pattern Groups D,E,I,H,L
- and a review of pattern groups B/K
In Class Exercise: informal presentation and discussion of Site Patterns
Assignment 3 is optional. Students who wish to replace Assignment 1 or 2 with a grade from assignment 3 should submit this by April 23rd for grading.
In Class Exercise: Team Progress Update, feedback on User Research Drafts
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Week 13:
04/23/2007
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No Class Meeting – Work on Final Projects
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Week 14:
04/30/2007
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Presentations!!!
In Class Exercise: Team Progress Updates
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Week 15:
05/07/2007 |
Class Presentations |
Week 16:
05/14/2007 |
Class Presentations
Due: Final Projects |
/03.12.2007 srt
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