Published: May 16, 2016
In my previous book review, I summarized two books on information architecture. Originally, my goal for this installment was to review two more books. However, this turned out to be no easy matter because this book review is about one of the industry’s most admired books: Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond.
For their fourth edition, Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld have teamed up with Jorge Arango to revive the classic text on information architecture, which had not been revised in a decade—since 2006 to be exact. This was a period before the iPhone’s introduction, when the world was not yet knee deep in a mobile-computing revolution. As you’ll see in this review, even though Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond confronts a much more complex digital environment, the book describes practices and methods that are just as relevant today as they were ten years ago.