Information Architecture

This week in the blogtastic adventure the lecture was primarily concerned with information architecture and its applications.

What I gathered from the lecture was that information architecture is the way that information is categorised, organised and applied to the medium for which it is intended.

I am researching the Commonwealth Bank site to explore the information flow of the site for another class, and I feel that it is a very good example of this process. The site in its entirety is immense, and would have been impossible to achieve without applying some or all of the principles discussed by Richard Saul Werman in his definition of the term.




This is a good diagram of the connection of elements that directly affect the outcome of any prepared and planned website, database or any other from of data preservation.