Designing Information Architecture

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Understanding and Structuring Content

Although digital information spaces and products exist at specific, quite persistent locations, it is actually their content, or the information itself, that defines an information space and its ever-shifting, but hopefully clear, boundaries. Because an information space’s content evolves continually, its information architecture must be resilient to remain coherent. Plus, information spaces typically comprise distinct sections that must also have clearly defined, albeit constantly shifting, boundaries.

Before designing an information architecture for a digital information space or product, you must first become familiar with its content. What does the term content comprehend? An information space or ...