Information Architecture (IA) for UX The Complete Course

Master UX information architecture: user research, navigation & labeling, content strategy, taxonomies & sitemaps
What you'll learn

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Understand what information architecture is, its core components, and why it is the backbone of every usable website and app
Conduct user research for IA with interviews, surveys, and open, closed and hybrid card sorting
Create user personas, user journey maps and task analyses that directly inform your structural decisions
Choose the right organization scheme (alphabetical, chronological, topical, task-based, audience-based or metaphor-driven) for any content
Apply hierarchical, sequential, matrix, database and hypertext structures to real websites and apps
Write clear, consistent labels and build a controlled vocabulary that balances user language with business terminology
Design global, local, contextual and supplementary navigation that works on desktop, tablet and mobile
Design search interfaces, results pages and faceted filtering that help users find what they need fast
Build a content strategy framework and run quantitative and qualitative content audits and inventories
Map content relationships and spot gaps, redundancies and inconsistencies in an existing content ecosystem
Produce professional IA deliverables: sitemaps, content models, wireframes and user flow diagrams
Structure content with taxonomies, metadata schemas, tagging, controlled vocabularies and folksonomies
Analyze the information architecture of Amazon, Airbnb, Spotify, Zillow, Wikipedia and Flickr in guided case studies
Requirements

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No prior experience with information architecture or UX design is required. We start from the fundamentals and build up step by step.
Curiosity about how websites and apps are put together, and a willingness to look critically at products you already use.
Description

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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Information Architecture: The Complete UX Design Course is a practical, step-by-step guide to organizing, labeling and structuring websites, mobile apps and digital products so that users can find what they need. Whether you are a UX designer, UI designer, product manager, content strategist, UX writer, web developer or a complete beginner, this course gives you the information architecture (IA) skills that sit at the heart of user experience design.
Information architecture is the discipline behind every menu, category, label, sitemap and search result you use. It determines findability and usability: whether users can navigate your site, understand where they are and complete their tasks. Good IA reduces bounce rates, improves conversion and makes content easier to manage. Poor IA makes even a beautiful user interface unusable.
In this course you will learn
•IA fundamentals:organization schemes, labeling systems, navigation systems, search systems and metadata
•User research for IA:user interviews, surveys, open, closed and hybrid card sorting, tree testing, user personas, user journey mapping and task analysis
•Organizing information:alphabetical, chronological, topical, task-oriented, audience-specific and metaphor-driven organization schemes, plus hierarchical, sequential, matrix, database and hypertext information structures
•Labeling and taxonomy:clear, consistent labels, controlled vocabularies, and balancing user language with business terminology
•Navigation design:global, local, contextual and supplementary navigation, breadcrumbs, mega menus, mobile navigation, faceted, guided and personalized navigation, and accessible navigation
•Search systems:search interface design, autocomplete, search results pages, sorting, facets and filters
•Content strategy:content strategy frameworks, content models, content inventories, quantitative and qualitative content audits, content relationship mapping, and finding gaps, redundancies and inconsistencies
•IA deliverables:sitemaps, wireframes, content models, user flow diagrams, low-fidelity and high-fidelity documentation
•Taxonomies and metadata:taxonomy design, descriptive, administrative and structural metadata, metadata schemas, tagging, controlled vocabularies and folksonomies
Every concept is illustrated with real-world case studies. You will analyze the information architecture of Amazon, Airbnb, Spotify, Zillow, Wikipedia and Flickr to see how organization, navigation, labeling, search and taxonomy work in products used by millions of people. Nearly every lesson ends with a hands-on exercise you can complete on any website or app, so you build a critical eye, and a portfolio of IA analysis, as you go.
No prior knowledge of information architecture, UX design or coding is required. By the end of the course you will be able to plan and run user research, design intuitive navigation and search, audit and structure content, create professional IA deliverables, and confidently explain your decisions to stakeholders and developers. These are the skills that UX designers, information architects, content designers and product teams use every day.
Enroll today and learn to design digital experiences that are findable, usable and built around how people actually think.
Who this course is for

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Aspiring and junior UX/UI designers who want to master the structural side of user experience, not just the visual side
Product managers, product owners and business analysts who need to organize features and content in ways users understand
Content strategists, content designers and UX writers who want to structure, label and audit content effectively
Web designers and developers who want to build websites and apps that people can navigate intuitively
Marketers, SEO specialists and website owners who want to improve findability, engagement and conversion
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