Pervasive Information Architecture

Pervasive Information Architecture
Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences

As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers, as well as, industrial designers and architects are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labelling of websites and software, professionals are faced the crucial challenge of how to apply these techniques to information systems that cross communication channels that link the digital world to the physical world.

Pervasive Information Architecture provides examples showing why and how one would:

•Model and shape information to adapt itself to users’ needs, goals, and seeking strategies
•Reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces
•Alleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services, and goods
•Suggest relevant connections between pieces of information, services and goods to help users achieve their goals.

Audience:
Practitioners, researchers, academics, students in: user experience design, usability, information architecture, interaction design, HCI, web interaction/interface designer, mobile application design/development, and information design. Also architects and industrial designers moving into the digital realm

By
Andrea Resmini, PhD, Researcher at the University of Borås, Sweden, Information architect at FatDUX, President at the Information Architecture Institute
Luca Rosati, Luca Rosati, Independent Information Architect; adjunct professor of IA and HCI at University of Florence and University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy.

Paperback, 272 Pages
Published: MAR-2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-12-382094-5