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- ISBN: 9780123820945 | 0123820944
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/30/2011
As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers, as well as, industrial designers and architects are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labelling of websites and software, professionals are faced the crucial challenge of how to apply these techniques to information systems that cross communication channels that link the digital world to the physical world.Pervasive Information Architecture provides examples showing why and how one would:Model and shape information to adapt itself to users' needs, goals, and seeking strategiesReduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spacesAlleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services, and goodsSuggest relevant connections between pieces of information, services and goods to help users achieve their goals.*The first book to provide practical solutions to the challenges of creating intuitive and usable information structure, navigation, and labeling for devices integrated in our everyday lives*Helps designers structure information and meet unique user needs for devices used in contexts that often blend the digital and physical worlds, such as iPhones and GPS systems*Features broad theories essential to understanding the field's fundamentals, followed by practical advice, success stories, examples, and trade-offs to help approach specifics, and techniques for the unique design challenges