Intro to Information Architecture

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Looking to enhance your skills and knowledge in information architecture and create more effective, resilient, and beautiful products or services?

Enjoy a fast-paced, fun time with Dan Klyn and other like-minded professionals for this Introduction to Information Architecture course. Based on 20 years of IA practice and instruction, this class was designed to equip you with the core skills and basic knowledge to create more effective, resilient, and beautiful products and services. Throughout the course, you’ll develop a more vivid understanding of how information architecture influences our work and discover the fundamental concepts and practices of IA. You’ll walk away with the importance of and the “how to” of employing information architecture practices in your work.

Standard pricing is $1000 USD. We offer discounts for students, small businesses, and non-profits as well as honoring Parity Purchase Power pricing. Past participants can also retake the workshop at no cost—contact us for more details.

This course presumes no prior familiarity with information architecture. It’s appropriate for learners at every level and includes hands-on activities that build on each other throughout the course. The goal is to equip participants at any level with the tools to see, think about, and work with that will bring order to their work. Designers, developers, marketers, and product managers with some exposure to Information Architecture have found this course significantly improves their ability to design and support complex products and services.

Attend this course if you’d like to:

• Improve your ability to create and support complex products and services

• Enhance your skills and knowledge of Information Architecture

• Delve into the fundamental concepts and practices of IA

• Create more effective, resilient, and beautiful user experiences

• Gain an understanding of how information architecture influences the work we do

• Foster durable stakeholder agreement by balancing stakeholder aims

• See the architecture of complex systems and apply heuristic analysis to locate their significant features

This is an online course, split into three modules, where we will provide you with a vantage point based on three framing questions: what good means, what things are, and how places work. By the end of the course, you’ll have significantly improved your ability to propose more preferable approaches to the design of complex products and services.

Module 1 - What Good Means

• We’ll use case studies and how-to’s fashioned around fostering durable stakeholder agreement regarding what “good” means for a project. 

• We’ll look at a tool called In/Tension modeling which TUG created to balance stakeholder aims.

Module 2 - What Things Are

• We’ll look at the Klyn/Resmini OTC theory to more adequately address the world we live in and how things exist in that world.

• We’ll then learn to model those things in a complex system.

Module 3 - How Places Work

• We’ll use the BASIC framework to see the architecture of complex systems.

• We will then analyze complex systems using the same framework.