1. Information Architecture & Design Week 11 Schedule - No Readings, Use your time for IA Work - Critiquing Web Pages/Sites - Presentations - BREAK - Speed Explaining & Reviewing - Methods and Procedures Help

2. IA Methodology AnalysisDesign VerificationConstructionMaintenance Planning

3. Critiquing Web Pages/Sites Goals of Page or Site? Clear Structure? Consistent Labels? Understandable Metaphor? Functional Navigation? - Text, Graphics, Interactive? - Global & Local Easy to Maintain? Technology?

4. ROI Critique - Find Information Faster - Find Information (!) - Make Sense of Information Found - Fewer Navigation Errors Costs of (not) Finding Information Provides a Competitive Advantage Increases Product Awareness - Brand - Consistency Makes Using a Site A More Enjoyable Experience

5. Stress Testing Navigation - Pick a random page on your site and ask yourself if it gives context to the site and the navigation structure(s) of the whole site. - Where? - What? - http://keith.instone.org/navstress http://keith.instone.org/navstress Search - Terms - Results Interfaces

6. Web Site Examinations University Pages - http://www.duke.edu/ http://www.duke.edu/ - http://www.umich.edu/ http://www.umich.edu/ - http://www.berkeley.edu/ http://www.berkeley.edu/ - http://www.washington.edu/ http://www.washington.edu/ University Department Pages - http://www.ischool.washington.edu/ http://www.ischool.washington.edu/ - http://www.si.umich.edu/ http://www.si.umich.edu/ - http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/index.htm - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/

7. Web Site Examinations News/Portal Pages - http://www.cnn.com/ http://www.cnn.com/ - http://money.cnn.com/ http://money.cnn.com/ - http://www.nandotimes.com/ http://www.nandotimes.com/ News Pages - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi.html - http://news.yahoo.com/ http://news.yahoo.com/ - http://www.msnbc.com/news/ http://www.msnbc.com/news/

8. Speed Explaining & Reviewing Explain your Design Project in 5 minutes. Review the Explanation. Discuss Current Problems and Solutions.

9. Methods and Procedures Help Design Specification Review Design Check Scheduling and Prioritizing Final Weeks of IA and Design