Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in Information Architecture.
- Card Sorting (Card Sort)
- A user research and information architecture method in which participants organise items (written on cards or displayed digitally) into groups that make sense to them, and may also label those groups.…
- Document Engineering (Document Design, Document Processing)
- Document engineering is the discipline concerned with the principles, tools, and processes for creating, managing, transforming, and presenting documents in ways that optimise their use across differe…
- Focus and Context (Focus+Context, Detail in Context)
- An information visualization and interaction design principle that simultaneously presents detailed information about a specific item of interest (focus) alongside an overview of the surrounding struc…
- Node Map (Topological node map, Graph map)
- A graph-based representation of a walkable space in which each node corresponds to a meaningful point — typically an intersection, a destination (room, exit, stairwell), or the user's current position…
- Semantic Partitioning (Web Page Partitioning, Content Partitioning)
- A technique for automatically dividing a web page into semantically meaningful segments or blocks based on the structural and visual properties of its HTML content. Semantic partitioning analyzes the …
- Semantic Structure (Semantic Representation)
- Semantic structure refers to the meaningful organisation of content that captures the conceptual relationships between pieces of information, as distinct from the syntactic or visual presentation of t…
- Sensemaking (Sense-making)
- The cognitive and social process of giving structure to ambiguous, incomplete, or unfamiliar information so that one can act on it. In HCI and information science, sensemaking is studied as iterative …