CASE V presentation - Applying information architecture to university web sites

I presented at the CASE V conference in Chicago yesterday. I went into detailed IA issues such as specific-to vs. relevant-for audiences, org-chart-itis, faceted browsing and navigation frameworks. Actually, there was so much good discussion on the audience organizational scheme (central to university sites) that I barely got to cover the rest.

Attached (way) below is a PDF of my slides. Here are links to items covered in the presentation.

• IA institute
• IA WWW (2nd edition)
• Elements of user experience
• ibm.com, SMB, Solutions, A&D, E&U
• Northwestern
• U. Michigan
• Ball State
• U. Cincinnati
• IGS, Systems, Software services, E&TS
• OSU colleges & schools, index, Alumni
• U. Chicago
• U. Toledo Colleges & departments
• Finders: Server, Workstations, Training
• Epicurious
• Amazon diamonds
• MSN TVs
• Yahoo! Farechase
• Yahoo! Local
• Courses: Owens, Ohio U.
• Calendar: Purdue
• Navigation stress test
• Bradley
• Path breadcrumbs: Sweater, New for holiday, Ones to give
• Attribute breadcrumbs

The best part of the trip: attending other sessions the day before, hearing about the user experience challenges being faced by others. And picking up the "CASE lingo" to help me frame my presentation better. I like being the last talk on the last day.