Information architecture (IA) training
Our hands-on information architecture training is fantastic - small class sizes, highly interactive and taught by experts. Book your place now on to our information architecture training course and discover how to structure & design your website around your users' needs.
Next IA training dates in 2012
- Mar 14-15 (4 places) London
- Jun 20-21 (6 places) London
Price
£795 + VAT including course manual, refreshments & lunch
Discounts for multiple bookings
Get a 10% or 20% discount when you book on any 2 or 3+ different courses respectively (view all courses)
Duration
2 days (10:00-17:00 each day)
Location
Private IA training courses also available
We regularly run in-house IA training courses too, especially worthwhile if there are 4+ people attending. The course can be fully customised and combined with any of our other courses, if required. For more details please contact us.
What you'll learn on the IA training course
Related courses
The information architecture (IA) training is part of our user experience training, which also includes:
- Web accessibility training
- Web usability training
- Usability testing training
- Prototype with Axure training
- Mobile user experience training
You'll automatically get a 10% or 20% discount when you book on any 2 or 3+ different courses respectively.
During the two-day interactive IA training course you will:
- Go through the all stages of a comprehensive user-centered design process
- Conduct in-depth user research & requirements gathering sessions
- Develop an affinity diagram of findings and user requirements
- Come up with initial conceptual designs based on site strategy
- Develop personas and scenarios around these conceptual designs
- Design wireframes across a series of pages
- Discover how to conduct design evaluations & walkthroughs
- Learn how to develop these paper wireframes in prototyping software
- Understand the best techniques to communicate pages designs to different audiences
You'll also receive a free 80-page IA training manual that contains all tutorials.
Information architecture (IA) trainers
The information architecture (IA) training course is usually run by one of:
Abid Warsi
Abid is a Senior Consultant at Webcredible. He has a wealth of usability testing and user-centered design experience and specialises in the online travel sector, in mobile user experiences and in understanding user behaviour by using contextual research techniques. Abid has a Psychology degree and a Masters in Ergonomics and previously worked as a business analyst.
Alex Baxevanis
Alex is a Senior Consultant at Webcredible. He has extensive experience running a range of user research and design projects. He specialises in coming up with innovative design solutions to offer highly accessible, engaging and interactive user experiences. He also regularly writes articles, runs training courses and presents at industry events.
Alistair Gray
Alistair is a Senior Consultant at Webcredible. He's been involved with the user experience industry for over 5 years, having originally gained his Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction from UCL. During this time, he's led a large variety of user experience projects, to include usability testing, in-depth interviews, interaction design, competitive benchmarking and requirements gathering.
Previous training participants
The following organisations have all sent individuals and groups on to our training courses:
- AOL
- Barclays
- BBC
- British Airways
- British Gas
- eBay
- EDF Energy
- Environment Agency
- Expedia
- The Guardian
- Harrods
- Home Office
- HSBC
- ITV
- John Lewis
- Lastminute.com
- Microsoft
- Ministry of Defence
- Nokia
- NSPCC
- T-Mobile
- Tesco
- United Nations
- Virgin
The course was great! Practical exercises helped us learn how to apply our new skills during the training. The training was fun, interesting and interactive - I'd recommend it to anyone.
Filip Elerud, Levi Strauss (more testimonials)
Information architecture (IA) training philosophy
Our IA training is fully based around the principle of learning-by-doing. The information architecture training lasts for two full days, during which time you'll complete a series of exercises designed for you to discover the answers by yourself and then put into practice what you've learnt.
By the end of the day, you'll have acquired a deep understanding of how to research and design a full information architecture. As a result of our hands-on information architecture (IA) training, you'll have:
- Confidence in managing an end-to-end user-centered design and IA process
- A deeper understanding of your new knowledge
- Ownership of what you've learnt
Our information architecture (IA) training courses are relatively small (maximum 10 participants) due to their interactive nature and are informal and fun.
Our information architecture (IA) training centre
IA courses are run at our purpose-built training centre at the Webcredible offices in London. The information architecture (IA) training itself is run in a bright airy room with each person having access to a PC. You can also use our break-out area during breaks and lunch where refreshments are provided throughout the day.
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Sign up for our information architecture (IA) training course
Private IA training courses also available
We regularly run in-house IA training courses too, especially worthwhile if there are 4+ people attending. The course can be fully customised and combined with any of our other courses, if required. For more details please contact us.
User-centered design services
- Information architecture - Receive a content strategy, site map & wireframes optimised around both your business goals & user needs
- Interaction design & user interface design - Have us develop a wireframe prototype for complex interactions on a website or application
