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Expert: Dan Brown

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Dan Brown is the author of Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning and Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals.  More recently he wrote Practical Design Discovery (A Book Apart, 2017). Get 15% off when you order from A Book Apart with the code: UIEPDD1 Also, take some time to check out his article, "Documenting Design Discovery."

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Dan Brown

5 Simple Principles to Improve Your Information Architecture

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Dan Brown

What You’ll Learn

  • Take information architecture beyond hierarchical site maps and explore some of the real challenges facing sites today.
  • Consider navigation menus more rigorously, without them turning into the junk drawer of your web site.
  • Establish ground rules for creating gallery or index pages that point to content to avoid clutter.
  • Understand what techniques most effectively explain the site's underlying structure to visitors.
Design Principles Information Architecture
December 23, 2010