دانلود کتاب معماری اطلاعات و طراحی UX – ادغام فضاهای اطلاعاتی، سوم

The term Information Architecture (IA) was coined by a brick-and-mortar architect Richard Wurman in the early 1970s as a profession of “gathering, organizing, and presenting information.” The World Wide Web accelerated the information explosion and created the real needs for the profession to help more people find and manage useful information online. Similarly, User Experience (UX), a term first used by Don Norman at Apple Computer in the 1990s, grew exponentially along with the web. Our revised third edition positions IA and UX design are two sides of the same humancentered design (HCD) coin. IA is associated with taxonomy, metadata, thesaurus, and other “information findability” related tasks that often happen behind the scenes, along with labeling and defining channels for information access. UX design is responsible for the vision and design solutions that people interact with and experience. The authors believe that the continuous evolution of the information spaces supported by the web, cloud, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies makes it possible to deliver ever more sophisticated interactions and user activities. The increasing importance of large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) have had profound impacts on work, play, and society at large. UX and AI converge in human-centered AI (HCAI), with the responsibility to make AI work for people. This requires a team effort including data scientists, machine learning engineers, developers, product owners, graphic designers, user researchers, and many more. Convergence calls for higher level of seamless collaboration among all the disciplines, but it does not eliminate the need for dedicated IA and UX work. Instead, this work spreads from traditional web design to digital devices, apps, medical devices, automobiles, and many other places. IAs and UX designers are part of the team determining the business and UX strategy, based on user needs and business goals, and making sure the strategy gets carried out. This book is a result of our teaching of a graduate-level course on Information Architecture at Drexel University for many years. The content has been constantly updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field—including GenAI and Systems Thinking for this third edition. The objective of the course was to introduce fundamental IA/UX concepts, theories, processes, and techniques in the context of human-centered design, to graduate students majored in Information Sciences and Information Systems. As the book was originally written as lecture notes, we believe it is most suitable to be used as textbook for similar courses in other schools. The key features of the book include concise discussions structured around each topic and the balanced coverage of theoretical and practical issues. As Drexel’s courses are quarter courses typically include 10 lecture weeks, we have conveniently structured the book into ten chapters, one for each week. The content for each week can be easily expanded when used for a semester course. User experience practitioners should also find this book useful and inspiring as a starting point in their exploration of this exciting field. We hope this book can help bridge the gap between the community of practice and academia.