Checking date: 25/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Information Architecture
(17355)
Bachelor in Management of Information and Digital Contents (Plan: 376 - Estudio: 340)


Coordinating teacher: OLMEDA GOMEZ, CARLOS

Department assigned to the subject: Library and Information Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
There are no specific course prerequisites for this course
Objectives
1. Create interaction designs using basic design concepts and best practices. 2. Follow a systematic process to design interactive products, starting from a design problem and ending with an interactive demo prototype.. 3. Participate in and respond to constructive criticism of design work. 4. Communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively at multiple levels of refinement: concepts, requirements, scenarios, flows, screen shots, sketches, prototypes...
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Information architecture. 2. Design for people. 3. Content organisation. 4. Outlines and structures for content. 5. Navigation, orientation and signposting. 6. Navigation models and patterns. 7. Display design. 8. Heuristics and cognitive bias. 9. Methods practical activities in the problem space. 10. Methods and practical activities of solution space.
Learning activities and methodology
TRAINING ACTIVITIES OF CURRICULUM CONCERNING STUDIES THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL CLASSES. It will present the knowledge that students must acquire. They will receive the class notes and will have basic reference texts to facilitate the monitoring of classes and the development of subsequent work. Readings associated with the different topics.Exercises, practical problems will be solved by the student and workshops will be held to acquire the necessary skills. TUTORIES. Individualized assistance (individual tutorials) or in groups (collective tutorials) to the students by the professor. INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK OF THE STUDENT. PRACTICAL WORK (3 ECTS). Practical work carried out individually and/or in groups with content related to design methods. Completion of assignments and answers to questionnaires. Presentation and delivery of a group portfolio. It is highly recommended that students come provided in the course of this academic year with laptops or tablets configured and with access to the University network, before the start of the practical classes. TUTORIES. Individualized assistance (individual tutorials) or in groups (collective tutorials) to the students by the professor. Face-to-face or virtual mode (Google Meet).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 30
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Brown, Dan M.. Communicationg design. Developing web site documentation for design and planning. New Riders. 2011
  • Buxton, Bill. Sketching user experience: getting the design right and the right design. Morgan Kaufmann. 2012
  • Ding, Wei; Lin, Xia; Zarro, Michael. Information architecture. The design and integration of information spaces. 2nd ed.. Morgan and Claypool publishers. 2017
  • Spencer, Donna. A practical guide to information architecture. 2nd edition. UX Mastery. 2014

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.