User Experience & Information Architecture Links for Beginners

The problem with Information Architecture and User Experience is, that most people tend to only have a very vague picture of what those two areas mean in terms of what professionals are doing every day in their jobs.

Actually, most people don’t even know that IA & UX even exist. This makes it very hard for young emerging information architects or user experience designers to find out more about those professions. Luckily there are some really great websites out there, where one can find tons of information, written by some of the brightest minds in the industry. I have written down a very short list of websites I visit on a daily basis to give beginners an easy start to find more information about the profession they are interested in. So here we go:

Basics

Lets start with one article you should read if you have never heared IA/UX before: A Complete Beginners Guide to Information Architecture

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How to use sitemaps to plan your design project

Sitemaps are one of the more basic deliverables one can use to organize a design project. In fact, they are so basic, that most of us don’t use them, especially when a project becomes more complex and doesn’t follow the basic tree structure. I still find sitemaps useful though to not only visualize connections between pages ( you will never be able to put all connections onto paper when a site gets more complex though) but it also helps to plan the whole design process.

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Interesting people to follow on twitter

When you join the twitter community for the first time, it’s hard to know who to follow and how things work.

To make a first entry easier, a lot of helpful people out there have compiled lists on who to follow if you are interested in a certain topic. I will try to compile a list of those posts to collect them in one place. Feel free to add additional posts in the comment section.

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