The IAI publishes a Salary Survey each year that examines salary in terms of experience, education, age, gender, geography, and job category so that you can get insight about IA salary expectations. The institute’s annual salary survey is one our most viewed and widely shared items. Get a sneak peek at this year's survey and look for the full report coming soon. Click here to link to the Tableau of the results analyses.
Currently, smart phones and tablet devices are encouraging users to adopt new ways of seeking information through gestures, UI behaviours, and different ways of accessing help content. Users will take more time to interact with these mobile devices with less frustration. In today's era of very short time-spans, mobile application developers and UI designers are required to design and develop innovative ways of reducing their learning time. Joe Welinske has authored a book on Developing User Assistance for Mobile Apps ( http://www.writersua.com/mobile/book.htm ). What is User Assistance? User...
The Spring 2011 Journal of Information Architecture, Issue 1, Vol. 3 is now available, with an editorial by IA Institute Board member, Dan Klyn describing this addition's articles as a collection of "...no-fuss, panoramic views into IA's way of seeing the design of information, spaces and information spaces." Read on for a case study in location based services from Jan Eckert of the University of Venice, an examination of Web Information Architeture as a diverse and inclusive practice within the enterprise from Sally Burford of Canberra University and a broader look at "Environments for...
Issue 2 Volume 2, Fall 2010, of the Journal of Information Architecture is out and available at http://journalofia.org/ . Table of Contents Eric Reiss Editorial: An Information Architect by Any Other Name pp. 1-4 Elise Conradi to_be_classified pp. 5-24 Downey & Banerjee Building an Information Architecture Checklist pp. 25-42 Martin FrickŽ Classification, Facets, and Metaproperties pp. 43-65 Articles can be read online , commented, or downloaded in PDF format. About the Journal of Information Architecture The Journal of Information Architecture is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its...
The Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. Issue 1, Volume 2, consists of three articles that span from the more technical approaches to information architecture to the more exploratory. Editorial: A Good Start by Dorte Madsen Topic Maps - From Information to Discourse Architecture by Lars Johnsen Lars Johnsen suggests how Topic Maps may function as a means of extending "information architecture" into "discourse architecture". Beyond Findability by Spagnolo, Bolchini, Paolini, & Di Blas Luigi Spagnolo, Davide Bolchini, Paolo Paolini and Nicoletta Di...
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Information Architecture inaugural Fall 2009 Issue, Issue 2, Volume 1, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/ . Table of Contents Bystršm, Pharo & Resmini Editorial: Open 24/7 Stefano Bussolon Card Sorting, Category Validity, and Contextual Navigation Brigitte Kaltenbacher From Prediction to Emergence David Walczyk & Cedomir Kovacev Mediation as Message Volume 1, Issue 2 is the first issue where we we have fully started to employ our peer-review procedures: all of the articles you will find in this issue have been rigorously...
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Information Architecture inaugural Spring 2009 Issue, Issue 1, Volume 1, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/ . Table of Contents Dorte Madsen Editorial: Shall We Dance? Gianluca Brugnoli Connecting the Dots of User Experience Helena Francke Towards an Architectural Document Analysis Andrew Hinton The Machineries of Context James Kalbach On Uncertainty in Information Architecture Issue 1, Volume 1 is an invited authors only issue and abstracts and full papers in PDF format are available at the Journal's web site. Articles will be...
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is pleased to announce the opening of the Information Architecture Library , an international collection of the best articles, books, blogs, guides, reports, and other resources related to the field of information architecture. The IA Library was developed by Joanna Markel and Jeff Tang, two graduate students at the University of Michigan's School of Information. Chiara Fox, Austin Govella, and Peter Morville provided support and served as mentors. "Jeff and Joanna designed and built a fully-functional user interface and content...