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A detailed reference on organizing, labeling, navigating, and searching large websites and digital products.
- Category
- UX / Design
- Recommendation
- Essential
Where it helps
Problems this book can help with.
- 01 Complex content that's impossible to navigate
- 02 Search that returns irrelevant results
- 03 Inconsistent organization across products
- 04 Not understanding how users find information
- 05 Struggling to scale content architecture
Main ideas
What I took from it.
- 01 The anatomy of information architecture
- 02 Organization schemes and structures
- 03 Labeling systems that make sense to users
- 04 Navigation and search systems design
- 05 Research methods for IA
My review
Why I recommend it.
Known as “the polar bear book,” this fourth edition covers both the foundations of information architecture and newer applications.
It is dense, but I recommend it when a product has enough content that labels, navigation, and search need to be treated as a system.