Andrew Hinton

Understanding Context (eBook, PDF)

Environment, Language, and Information Architecture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

To make sense of the world, were always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than everstarting with "e;where"e; and "e;who"e; we are.This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. Youll discover not only how to design for a given context, but also how design participates in making context.Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environmentsSee how labels, relationships, and rules work as building blocks for contextFind out how to make better sense of cross-channel, multi-device products or servicesDiscover how language creates infrastructure in organizations, software, and the Internet of ThingsLearn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449326579
• Artikelnr.: 42008609

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hinton is an Information Architect at The Understanding Group (TUG). Since the early 90s, he's been helping clients and employers of all shapes and sizes make better information environments. Andrew is co-founder and past board member of the IA Institute, and is a frequent speaker at UX conferences. You can find links to Andrew-related things at andrewhinton.com. Learn more about his book, Understanding Context, at contextbook.com

Inhaltsangabe

1. Praise for Understanding Context
2. Foreword
3. Preface
4. Acknowledgments
5. The Context Problem
* Chapter 1: Everything, Yet Something
* Chapter 2: A Growing Challenge
* Chapter 3: Environments, Elements, and Information
6. Physical Information
* Chapter 4: Perception, Cognition, and Affordance
* Chapter 5: Attention, Control, and Learning
* Chapter 6: The Elements of the Environment
* Chapter 7: What Humans Make
7. Semantic Information
* Chapter 8: How Language Works
* Chapter 9: Language as Infrastructure
* Chapter 10: The Written Word
* Chapter 11: Making Things Make Sense
8. Digital Information
* Chapter 12: Digital Cognition and Agency
* Chapter 13: Digital Interaction
* Chapter 14: Digital Environment
9. The Maps We Live In
* Chapter 15: Information as Architecture
* Chapter 16: Mapping and Placemaking
* Chapter 17: Virtual and Ambient Places
* Chapter 18: The Social Map
10. Composing Context
* Chapter 19: Arrangement and Substance
* Chapter 20: The Materials of Semantic Function
* Chapter 21: Narratives and Situations
* Chapter 22: Models and Making
11. Coda
12. About the Author
13. Understanding Context