After completing the course satisfactorily, students should know:
- Theoretical principles and methods of information architecture with a practical orientation for different environments, applications and artifacts
- Articulate principles of user-centered design and employ some of its tools in a practical way
- Products to communicate the results of design processes
Acquire skills in:
- Planning, developing and designing information architectures
- Choose and apply methods to analyze, evaluate and compare information architectures
- Use formal models to identify and integrate users, user requirements and user characteristics in the design of information architectures
- Communicate knowledge and information architecture solutions combining words and diagrams in the context of a hypothetical project
And acquire competences in:
- Apply scientific theories and methods on information architecture, interactive design, organize categories, test users and information
- Organize and communicate information and knowledge through the information architecture
- Identify and structure their own learning needs in relation to the use of the information architecture in a specific context
