Week 2-Site Mapping

Welcome to the Site Mapping.

This week is all about Information Architecture, Site Mapping, Wireframing and Page Schematics. As we migrate from "Discovery" to "Design", we are learning essential practices, tools and deliverables that are invaluable while also ensuring you have a solid structure and flow to your site prior to applying graphics or "pixel-pushing."


COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Make sure you read all your required reading. There might be a quiz next week....

2. When you're downloading MindManager to your account/computer in the lab, you're going to need one of the teach guys to type in a password so you can install it. I've spoken with them and they're fine with doing it.

Assignment 3:

Create a site map of the current taxonomy for the site you're about to redesign AND a home page paper wireframe/schematic of what you think your revised (home page) structure will end up looking like prior to comping.
Remember...just think structure & flow, not design.

Take advantage of Mindjet's MindManager 7 30 day trial download. It's fairly new for the Mac platform and pretty intuitive. Don't forget to take the tutorial as well as check out the map gallery. **Also, for our presentation next week, if you're using MindManager, don't forget to save as PDF for projection presentation.

**LASTLY, DON'T PRESENT SOMETHING THAT IS UNREADABLE, SLOPPY OR TOO SMALL. THIS IS A PORTFOLIO PIECE FOR MOST OF YOU SO PUT THE TIME IN.

Use powerpoint, InDesign or Illustrator for the home page schematic (no template provided)

Class Lecture Slides
Wk 2 Required Reading - Site Mapping

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Some Resources:

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web - If you want to learn how to structure and organise websites, then this is the book for you. From data chunking and card sorting to scenarios and task analysis, this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about information architecture for the web, and then some.

The Art and Science of Web Design: When it comes to Web design, style guides are often too boring and predictable to capture the attention of caffeine-riddled Web developers. But not The Art & Science of Web Design; this book strategically equips readers to design sites effectively.