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Designing Information Architecture
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Designing Information Architecture

by Pabini Gabriel-Petit
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
572 pages
19h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Structural Patterns and Organization Schemes

This chapter provides some additional foundational knowledge that is essential to designing effective information architectures for digital information spaces, focusing on some of the common ways in which you can structure and organize such spaces.

The electronic page is the basic unit of content on any digital information space. Because today’s software lets organizations create digital content independently of its presentation, organizations can publish the same content through a variety of media such as Web pages, mobile-app pages, ebook pages, or PDF documents. Such pages, or content objects, are the basic building blocks of any digital information space.

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