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From the course: Interaction Design: Structure
Defining different structural flows
- [Instructor] Diagrams for information architecture are designed to capture how pages are related to each other at a high level. Let's dive into four different types of diagrams that can help us communicate structure at different levels of the project. The first is an IA map, or a site map. Typical diagrams for communicating information architecture are site maps, or IA diagrams, and they're focused on the structure of the hierarchy rather than decisions or conditional page flows. For example, in this simple site map for a website, you can see it's pretty basic. There isn't any specifics on what's on the page, it's just showing that there's a page there. The goal of this diagram is to communicate high-level navigation labels and to show which pages make up the navigation. IA diagrams can get unwieldy pretty quickly, as websites can have a lot more items in their navigation. If you have page layout details, you can also include that in your diagram if you want. I approach IA diagrams…
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