This course is available individually or as part of these certificate programs

Information Architecture Class for UX - Course Dates

All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.

Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Boston
American Graphics Institute
8 Cabot Rd
Boston - Woburn, MA
01801
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Boston
American Graphics Institute
8 Cabot Rd
Boston - Woburn, MA
01801
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00

Overview of an information architecture

  • The importance of the underlying information structure
  • Information architecture design patterns and how they relate to your experience
  • Flat and hierarchical information structures

The foundation of an information architecture

  • Primary research
  • Personas, stories, and user flows
  • Feature building

Best practices for information architecture design

  • Designing your IA based on user needs
  • Establishing a clear purpose based upon UX brief and other integrated data
  • Integrating and prioritizing the user needs in order to build effective navigation
  • Building-in consistency

Methods and techniques for creating the IA design

  • Whiteboarding and post-its for organizing IA
  • Card Sorting: Open, closed, and reverse processes
  • Site Maps and Outlines

Testing your information architecture

  • Wireframes and prototypes
  • Active observing
  • Passive observing
  • Online review
 

UX Design course instructors

AGI instructors are UX Design professionals and skilled teachers. You'll learn from a live UX Design professional that brings years of experience that will help you learn UX Design quickly and easily.

Jennifer
Jennifer

MS, Human Factors Information Design

BA, Commercial Art

UXQB Certfied

Adjunct Professor, Boston University

Grace
Grace

MS, Information Design

BA, Digital Communications

Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf

Shirley
Shirley

MLA, Harvard

MS, Bentley

BS, Bentley

Custom and private UX Design classes

This UX Design course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. UX Design classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.

Information Architecture Course Instructor profile

Jennifer Smith holds a Master's of Science degree in Human Factors Information Design. When not teaching at AGI, she teaches graduate coursework at Boston University. Jennifer has been named a Microsoft MVP for three consecutive years for her work in the user experience field of wireframing and prototyping mobile app designs. She has delivered global UX, UI, and design-tools training for mobile, tablet, and desktop application developers, business analysts, and development teams for major U.S., Asian, and European technology companies, major retailers, apparel companies, and mobile device companies. She has delivered professional development training sessions for professors at computer science and human factors programs and for Microsoft's employees at their internal Microsoft TechReady event. Jennifer also has a B.A. degree in Communication Design in addition to her master's degree. Additional instructors with equal or higher qualifications also teach this course.

Information Architecture course for UX prerequisites

Participants in the information architecture course should have either completed the UX design course or be working in a UX or an adjacent field, such as a business analyst, developer, information architect, or product management position.

This information architecture training class is part of the UX Certificate and is also available independently several times per year.

Information Architecture course length

This information architecture class is one day in length and is available in our classrooms or as a live online class.

UX certification

You can expand your skills and validate your user experience knowledge using the ISO international standard for UX certification. Learn more about UX Certification options.

Available Delivery Methods For This Class

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