Seven Trends In Information Architecture, Berlin 2006

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I held this talk at EuroIA in Berlin, Germany back in September of 2006. I'm uploading it now (December 2009) because I'm amazed at how much is still relevant.

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Eric L. Reiss | EuroIA 2006 | Berlin, Germany | 30 September 2006

Seven trends in IA

EuroIA 2006September 30, 2006

Berlin, Germany

What they areHow they will affect us

trend noun1 : a general direction taken2 : a prevailing tendency3 : a current style or preference

Phones got smaller... ...and became commodities

fad noun1 : a temporary fashion2 : a practice or interest followed fora time with exaggerated zeal3 : [syn] a craze

Computers get prettier... ...year after year

Images courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.

Websites have become part of the business plan

Trend # 1Now we’re going to make them part of the business

State-of-the-artcommunication tool

anno 1995

1st Generation Website

HQ

N. America EMEA Cyberspace

2nd Generation Website

3rd Generation Website

Off-line On-lineCEM

Customer Experience Management

Trend #2Websites have become more focused

Google, September 1998

AltaVista, September 1998

And there’s a clear place to start

No place to start...

Clearer first choices

We’re cutting out the junk

Irrelevant junk – 3 clicks into the site!

Trend # 3Websites are now truly multimedia

Trend # 4Sitemaps are dying

Paid links

Rotating banner

Maincontent

Editorial

Featuredlink

Log-in

Primary navigationSearchSite identifier

Contextualnavigation

Google

Local ISP

Webeditor

HReditor

Marcom

Webops

Web opsWeb opsCorpcom

Web editor

Trend # 4bSitemaps are alive and well

Trend # 5aCustomization is dead

Sample screenshot:

Two exceptions

Personal portalsPersonal pages

Trend # 5b Personalization lives

Trend # 6Site search is maturing

(but very slowly)

Trend # 7IA is not always part of the job title

From geeks to gurus

Tactical Strategic

Technical issues

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Question...Will the “strategic IA” become redundant ?

Danke!

Eric Reiss can be reached at:

The FatDUX Group ApSStrandøre 15DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø

Office: (+45) 39 29 67 77Mobile: (+45) 20 12 88 44Twitter: elreisser@fatdux.comwww.fatdux.com

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