A well-planned information architecture (IA) for websites and apps creates the foundation for a functional site or app. In this information architecture training class discover how to create a useful information hierarchy to help users engage with your app or website. Information architecture is an often-overlooked area of website and app design, but without a well-planned information hierarchy, designers risk creating applications and sites that are confusing or make content virtually inaccessible. In this dynamic, hands-on, session, emphasis is placed on building an effective information architecture created from multiple sources of information. These sources include user research, scenarios, features, and user priorities.
In this information architecture (IA) course participants:
- Learn to build an effective information architecture from multiple sources of information.
- Discover how to utilize user research, scenarios, features,
- Understand how to organize and sort user priorities.
- Find out how to ensure information is organized in a consistent and predictable way.
Information Architecture Course for Application and Web Design Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Course Title | Course Dates | Course Location | Fee | Register |
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Information Architecture Course for Application and Web Design
Weekdays
![]() Philadelphia |
Fri, Dec 10 2021 10:00 am to 5:00 pm |
Philadelphia American Graphics Institute 101 West Elm St. Philadelphia - Conshohocken, PA 19428 |
$495.00 |
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- Assess existing and needed content
- Organize pages and screens
- Provide clues to help use the site efficiently
- Develop navigational structure
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 upon 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
- White boarding 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
Participants in the IA training workshop should have either completed the UX Design Principles UX course or be working in a UX or related role, such as a Business Analyst, Developer, Information Architect, or Product Management position.
This information architecture training class is part of the UX Certificate Program and is also available independently several times per year as well.
IA Course Length
This IA class is one-day in length if taken in our classrooms or if taken as a live online class.
In this information architecture class for UX, participants discover the ways in which the different pages of their application or website relate to one another, and find out how to ensure information is organized in a consistent and predictable way.

UX Classes in Our Classroom
You can take this two-day information architecture (IA) course for UX design in our classroom with a live instructor in the same classroom with you. It is available at our classrooms in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. These regularly scheduled, public IA workshops include small groups of professionals from various companies. A typical live IA class involves a small group of between 6 and 10 participants, along with the instructor. These in-person UX classes include both individual and group exercises, along with reviews of user experience / information architecture projects conducted in class. These in-person IA courses are one-day in length, and open to the public. We can also deliver this as a private UX workshop for your group or organization.
UX Classes Online
You can take this two-day information architecture (IA) course for UX design in our classroom with a live instructor in the same classroom with you. It is available at our classrooms in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. These regularly scheduled, public IA workshops include small groups of professionals from various companies. A typical live IA class involves a small group of between 6 and 10 participants, along with the instructor. These in-person UX classes include both individual and group exercises, along with reviews of user experience / information architecture projects conducted in class. These in-person IA courses are one-day in length, and open to the public. We can also deliver this as a private UX workshop for your group or organization.
In this information architecture (IA) course participants:
- Learn to build an effective information architecture from multiple sources of information.
- Discover how to utilize user research, scenarios, features,
- Understand how to organize and sort user priorities.
- Find out how to ensure information is organized in a consistent and predictable way.